`categories.list`

List organization categories with parent_id, description, display path ("Events › Hackathons"), taxonomy_key, the caller's last_used_at and rule_count. Contributors see active categories only.

GETPOST/api/v1/accounting/categories.list

Permissions

accounting:read

Who can call it

admin, finance, contributor

Retries

Safe to retry: it only reads

MCP

accounting_list_categories

Fields

No input fields. Send an empty object, {}.

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/categories.list \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/categories.list", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/categories.list",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Response

{
  "data": { … }
}

Try it

Checks your input with this action’s real schema and answers like the API, with synthetic data. No key needed, and nothing changes.

Input

GET/api/v1/accounting/categories.list

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/categories.list \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/categories.list", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/categories.list",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Fields

Example

Try it