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Fetching an item's id by name in the API
Hi, this is probably obvious, but how would you get an item by it's name, or a full list of items in a category, via an API method?
For example, say I have some Categories called 'locations'. I'd like to know how I might get the location 'London' - regardless of it it was properties/london or properties/south-east/london. I'd also like to know, how I can get the full 'properties' set, for example as an associative array, or whatever?
Do you need this for your app, or are you just trying to get the raw data, cause that makes a difference.
Thanks Robert. I think the raw data would be best - I'm hooking up my Perch cms with a third party SDK, so when I populate some pages, I'd like to get under the hood as far as possible.
You can still get the raw data if you use skip-template, this will return an array of all categories, unless you also add a “set”. With filtering and a match of “contains” you should be able to get everything your looking for.
docs
https://docs.grabaperch.com/functions/categories/perch-categories/