https://dev.lunchmoney.app/v1/categories

with the Authorization header field set to Bearer YOURACCESSTOKEN

https://dev.lunchmoney.app/v1/categories?access_token=YOURACCESSTOKEN

{
  "user_name": "User 1",
  "user_email": "user-1@lunchmoney.dev",
  "user_id": 18328,
  "account_id": 18221,
  "budget_name": "🏠 Family budget"
  "api_key_label": "Side project dev key"
}

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "Test 1",
      "description": "Test description",
      "is_income": false,
      "exclude_from_budget": true,
      "exclude_from_totals": false,
      "updated_at": "2020-01-28T09:49:03.225Z",
      "created_at": "2020-01-28T09:49:03.225Z",
      "is_group": true,
      "group_id": null,
      "order": 0
    },
    {
      "id": 84,
      "name": "Test 2",
      "description": null,
      "is_income": true,
      "exclude_from_budget": false,
      "exclude_from_totals": true,
      "updated_at": "2020-01-28T09:49:03.238Z",
      "created_at": "2020-01-28T09:49:03.238Z",
      "is_group": false,
      "group_id": 83,
      "order": 1,
      "children": [
        {
          "id": 315162,
          "name": "Alcohol, Bars",
          "description": null,
          "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.066Z"
        },
        {
          "id": 315169,
          "name": "Groceries",
          "description": null,
          "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.120Z"
        },
        {
          "id": 315172,
          "name": "Restaurants",
          "description": null,
          "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.146Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

{
  "id": 315358,
  "name": "Food & Drink",
  "description": null,
  "is_income": false,
  "exclude_from_budget": false,
  "exclude_from_totals": false,
  "archived": false,
  "archived_on": null,
  "is_group": true,
  "group_id": null,
  "order": 5,
  "children": [
    {
      "id": 315162,
      "name": "Alcohol, Bars",
      "description": null,
      "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.066Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 315169,
      "name": "Groceries",
      "description": null,
      "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.120Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 315172,
      "name": "Restaurants",
      "description": null,
      "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.146Z"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "category_id": 26213
}

{ "error": "Missing category name." }

{ "error": "Category name must be less than 40 characters." }

{ "error": "Category description must be less than 140 characters." }

{
  "error": "Operation error occurred. Please try again or contact support@lunchmoney.app for assistance."
}

{
  "category_id": 26213
}

{ "error": "Missing category name." }

{
  "error": "A category with the same name (sample_duplicate_name) already exists."
}

{
  "error": "The following category id(s) could not be added as a group because you do not have permissions for this category, or it is already a category group: 3893"
}

true

{ "error": "No valid fields to update for this category." }

{ "error": "You may not set the is_group property for an existing category." }

{
  "error": "This category cannot be assigned a group because it is a category group."
}

{
  "error": "Operation error occurred. Please try again or contact support@lunchmoney.app for assistance."
}

{
  "id": 315358,
  "name": "Food & Drink",
  "description": null,
  "is_income": false,
  "exclude_from_budget": false,
  "exclude_from_totals": false,
  "is_group": true,
  "group_id": null,
  "children": [
    {
      "id": 315162,
      "name": "Alcohol, Bars",
      "description": null,
      "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.066Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 315164,
      "name": "Coffee Shops",
      "description": null,
      "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.082Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 315169,
      "name": "Groceries",
      "description": null,
      "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.120Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 315172,
      "name": "Restaurants",
      "description": null,
      "created_at": "2022-03-06T20:11:36.146Z"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "error": "The following category id(s) could not be added as a group because you do not have permissions for this category, or it is already a category group: 3280"
}

{
  "error": "Operation error occurred. Please try again or contact support@lunchmoney.app for assistance."
}

true

{
  "dependents": {
    "category_name": "Food & Drink",
    "budget": 4,
    "category_rules": 0,
    "transactions": 43,
    "children": 7,
    "recurring": 0
  }
}

true

{
  "error": "Operation error occurred. Please try again or contact support@lunchmoney.app for assistance."
}

[
    {
        "id": 1807,
        "name": "Wedding",
        "description": "All wedding-related expenses",
        "archived": false
    },
    {
        "id": 1808,
        "name": "Honeymoon",
        "description": "All honeymoon-related expenses",
        "archived": true
    }
]

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  "transactions": [
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      "date": "2020-01-01",
      "payee": "Starbucks",
      "amount": "4.5000",
      "currency": "cad",
      "to_base": 4.5,
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      "category_id": null,
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      "asset_id": null,
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      "is_group": false,
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      "fees": null,
      "price": null,
      "quantity": null
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      "id": 603,
      "date": "2020-01-02",
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      "currency": "usd",
      "notes": null,
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      "group_id": null,
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      "fees": null,
      "price": null,
      "quantity": null
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}

{ "error": "Both start_date and end_date must be specified." }

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  "amount": "960.0000",
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  "subtype": null,
  "fees": null,
  "price": null,
  "quantity": null
}

{ "error": "Transaction ID not found." }

{
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}

{
  "error": [
    "Transaction 0 is missing date.",
    "Transaction 0 is missing amount.",
    "Transaction 1 status must be either cleared or uncleared: null"
  ]
}

{
  "updated": true,
  "split": [58, 59]
}

{ "error": ["This transaction doesn't exist or you don't have access to it."] }

{
  "error": [
    "You cannot change the amount for this transaction because it was automatically imported.",
    "You cannot assign an asset_id for this transaction because it was automatically imported."
  ]
}

[84389, 23212, 43333]

{
  "error": "The following transaction ids are not valid to unsplit: 1232, 1233, 1234"
}

84389

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  "error": [
    "Transaction 35360525 is in a transaction group already (35717487) and cannot be added to another transaction group."
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}

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{ "error": ["No transactions found for this group_id 35717487."] }

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  "recurring_expenses": [
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      "id": 264,
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      "end_date": null,
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      "payee": "Test 5",
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      "currency": "cad",
      "created_at": "2020-01-30T07:58:43.944Z",
      "description": null,
      "billing_date": "2020-01-01",
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      "original_name": null,
      "source": "manual",
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    },
    {
      "id": 262,
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      "payee": "Test 2",
      "amount": "-32.4500",
      "currency": "usd",
      "created_at": "2020-01-30T07:58:43.921Z",
      "description": "Test description 2",
      "billing_date": "2020-01-03",
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      "plaid_account_id": null,
      "asset_id": null,
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}

{ "error": "Invalid start_date. Must be in format YYYY-MM-DD" }

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{ "error": "Budget must be greater than or equal to the sum of sub-category budgets ($10.01)." }

true

{ "error": "start_date must be a valid date in format YYYY-MM-01" }

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      "institution_name": "Bank of Me",
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}

{
  "errors": [
    "type_name must be one of: cash, credit, investment, other, real estate, loan, vehicle, cryptocurrency, employee compensation"
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{
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{ "errors": [ "currency is invalid for crypto: fakecoin. It may not be supported yet. Request to get it supported via the app or support@lunchmoney.app" ] }

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