Last day while I was trying to build a video uploading service using YouTube’s Data API, I found out that we could select the category of a video via the API itself.
YouTube has associated an unique ID for each category on its platform. The default category of all video uploads on YouTube is “People & Blogs”, whose ID is 22.
So for my future reference and to help anyone looking for it in the future, I’m providing a complete table of all YouTube Categories with their IDs for the YouTube Data API, below.
| Category ID | Category Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Film & Animation |
| 2 | Autos & Vehicles |
| 10 | Music |
| 15 | Pets & Animals |
| 17 | Sports |
| 18 | Short Movies |
| 19 | Travel & Events |
| 20 | Gaming |
| 21 | Videoblogging |
| 22 | People & Blogs |
| 23 | Comedy |
| 24 | Entertainment |
| 25 | News & Politics |
| 26 | Howto & Style |
| 27 | Education |
| 28 | Science & Technology |
| 29 | Nonprofits & Activism |
| 30 | Movies |
| 31 | Anime/Animation |
| 32 | Action/Adventure |
| 33 | Classics |
| 34 | Comedy |
| 35 | Documentary |
| 36 | Drama |
| 37 | Family |
| 38 | Foreign |
| 39 | Horror |
| 40 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| 41 | Thriller |
| 42 | Shorts |
| 43 | Shows |
| 44 | Trailers |
