getCategories

The ArcGIS Places service has many categories (or types) of place, from art museums to zoos. This endpoint returns all the categories including their label and categoryId . The category Id can be used to search for types of places with a places/near-point or places/within-extent request.

Categories also have information on their parent . This allows you to search for specific categories such as "French Restaurant" - or to look for more generic types such as "Restaurant".

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import { getCategories } from "@esri/arcgis-rest-places";
import { ApiKeyManager } from "@esri/arcgis-rest-request";

const response = await getCategories({
 authentication: ApiKeyManager.fromKey("YOUR_API_KEY")
});

console.log(response.categories);

Returns