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# GetCategories

Using this method will return the name of every category you have as well as their UUID.

## GetCategories

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://testapi.onvision.ai/wsservice.asmx`

Use this method to get your categories as JSON result.

#### Path Parameters

| Name  | Type   | Description |
| ----- | ------ | ----------- |
| TOKEN | string | Token       |

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{% tab title="200 Response when token is valid." %}

```javascript
{
	"Envelope": {
		"Success": "1",
		"Message": "",
		"Info": {
			"Version": "1.0.0",
			"Run_Date": "20211005085801",
			"Executed_ms": "190.015"
		},
		"Result": {
			"Category": "Accounting 1",
			"UUID": "2BAE24CB-4E6C-4690-B4E8-CA55D818F357"
		}
	}
}
```

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{% endtabs %}

## GetCategories

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://testapi.onvision.ai/wsserviceNet.asmx`

Use this method to get your categories as XML result.

#### Path Parameters

| Name  | Type   | Description |
| ----- | ------ | ----------- |
| TOKEN | string | Token       |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Response when token is valid" %}

```markup
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <soap:Body>
        <GetCategoriesResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
            <GetCategoriesResult>
                <Envelope xmlns="">
                    <Success>1</Success>
                    <Message></Message>
                    <Info>
                        <Version>1.0.0</Version>
                        <Run_Date>20211005090350</Run_Date>
                        <Executed_ms>4.0042</Executed_ms>
                    </Info>
                    <Result>
                        <Category>Accounting 1</Category>
                        <UUID>2BAE24CB-4E6C-4690-B4E8-CA55D818F357</UUID>
                    </Result>
                </Envelope>
            </GetCategoriesResult>
        </GetCategoriesResponse>
    </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}