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Retrieve the category URI for a given category label/prefix.

Use this API endpoint to map the category label into the category URI that can be used when specifying the categoryUri filter in various API calls. The label can also be a partial name.

The returned value will contain an array of candidates that match the input label. The returned list is sorted based on how frequently the category occurs in Event Registry data.

Endpointhttps://eventregistry.org/api/v1/suggestCategoriesFast
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Find the list of categories whose label matches the term "Business". The matching is case-insensitive and the term can appear anywhere inside the category name.

Request body

Parameters 
apiKey  string (required)

Your API key

prefix  string

Partial or full name of the category.