Get a single CPD category

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Get
/cpdCategories/{categoryId}

Retrieves a specific CPD category by its ID

Security
HTTP
Type basic

HTTP Basic authentication using your Tenant ID and API secret.

  • Username is the Tenant ID (i.e. eu-west-2_AbcdEfghI)
  • Password is the API secret you would have received.

You can also authenticate using OAuth 2.0 client credentials (oauth2 security scheme) instead of Basic auth.

OAuth

OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication.

Use the following token endpoints (replace :tenantId with your Tenant ID):

  • Public API access tokens

    • Staging: https://public.api.learnstaging.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Production: https://public.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Staging MEA: https://public.api.meastaging.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Production MEA: https://public.api.mea.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
  • Webhooks access tokens

    • Staging: https://user.api.learnstaging.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Production: https://user.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Staging MEA: https://user.api.meastaging.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Production MEA: https://user.api.mea.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId

All access tokens must be sent using the Authorization: Bearer <access_token> header.

Scopes

For API access (non-webhooks), the following scopes are available:

  • api/all – Full read and write access to the API.
  • api/read – Read-only access to the API.
  • api/write – Write access to the API.

For webhooks, the following scopes are available:

  • api/webhooks – Access to webhook functionality.
  • api/all – Full read and write access to the API, including webhooks.

Tokens must include appropriate scopes for the endpoints you wish to call.

FlowClient Credentials
Token URLhttps://public.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
Path parameters
categoryId
stringRequired

Unique identifier of the CPD category

Pattern^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$
Example507f1f77bcf86cd799439011
Responses
200

Successful response

{
  "categoryId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439012",
  "name": "ANIMALS"
}
object
categoryId
string

Unique ID for this category record

Pattern^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$
Example5c8936159ec2d00010cdd334
name
string

Name of the category of CPD activity

Max length250
ExamplePersonal Reading
404

CPD category not found