Facebook Pages — Authoritative List of Categories

Asked 2010-11-18T15:44:42.437

I'm trying to find out about a Facebook user's interests based on pages they like, etc. It would be useful to have the list of possible page categories. I have made a rough list based on the dropdown menus from the page creation form, but the values in this are slightly different to those returned by the Graph API (e.g. "Sports_teams" as opposed to "Sports team").

So, what I'd like to know is:

Where can I find a complete list of available categories, in the form that I'll see them when I query the Graph API?
Are these strings localised? If so, where can I find the en_GB ones?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ross

BTW, my list of categories is:

19,Band
19,Musician
68,Restaurant
88,Film
89,TV Programme
91,Technology product/service
92,Financial Service
94,Fashion
108,Museum/attraction
109,Park
110,Travel
111,Hotel/B&amp;B/Hostel
112,Hotel/B&amp;B/Hostel
113,Travel service
114,Airline/Ship/Train Station
115,Convention or sports centre
116,Car Hire
117,Home living
121,Café
123,Health and beauty
124,Education
125,Event planning service
126,Banking and financial service
127,Technology and telecommunications service
129,Medical service
130,Home service
131,Car Dealer/Vehicle Service
132,Local business
133,Pharmaceutical
134,Pets
135,Professional service
136,Professional service
137,Property
138,Food &amp; drink
139,Supermarket
140,Automotive
141,Consumer product
142,Sports/athletics
143,Retail
144,Shop
145,Online shop
147,Religious organisation
148,Religious centre
149,Library/Public Building
150,Government
151,Politician
152,Non-profit
154,Game
156,Sports team
157,Actor
158,Model
159,Comedian
160,Visual artist
161,Writer
162,Critic
163,Public figure
164,Club
165,Pub/bar
167,Website
169,Athlete
170,Communications
176,Products
349,Government Official

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I took the time to document a script that can grab the above data in JSON format. For anyone interested, check out this gist. The list of categories that I got as of March 23, 2012 is:

{
  "1105": "Movie",
  "1108": "Producer",
  "1109": "Writer",
  "1112": "TV/Movie Award",
  "1113": "Fictional Character",
  "1114": "Movie Character",
  "1200": "Album",
  "1201": "Song",
  "1207": "Music Video",
  "1208": "Concert Tour",
  "1210": "Radio Station",
  "1211": "Record Label",
  "1212": "Music Award",
  "1213": "Music Chart",
  "1300": "Book",
  "1301": "Author",
  "1307": "Magazine",
  "1309": "Book Series",
  "1400": "TV Show",
  "1402": "TV Network",
  "1404": "TV Channel",
  "1600": "Athlete",
  "1601": "Artist",
  "1602": "Public Figure",
  "1604": "Journalist",
  "1605": "News Personality",
  "1606": "Chef",
  "1607": "Lawyer",
  "1610": "Comedian",
  "1613": "Teacher",
  "1614": "Dancer",
  "1617": "Entrepreneur",
  "1700": "Politician",
  "1701": "Government Official",
  "1800": "Sports League",
  "1801": "Sports Team",
  "1802": "Coach",
  "1803": "Amateur Sport Team",
  "1804": "School Sports Team",
  "2200": "Company",
  "2201": "Product/Service",
  "2202": "Website",
  "2205": "Cars",
  "2206": "Bags/Luggage",
  "2208": "Camera/Photo",
  "2209": "Clothing (Brand)",
  "2210": "Computers (Brand)",
  "2211": "Software",
  "2213": "Electronics",
  "2214": "Health/Beauty",
  "2216": "Building Materials",
  "2217": "Commercial Equipment",
  "2219": "Furniture",
  "2220": "Household Supplies",
  "2222": "Patio/Garden",
  "2223": "Tools/Equipment",
  "2224": "Wine/Spirits",
  "2226": "Jewelry/Watches",
  "2230": "Pet Supplies",
  "2231": "Outdoor &amp; Sporting Goods Company",
  "2232": "Baby Goods/Kids Goods",
  "2233": "Media/News Company",
  "2234": "Finance Company",
  "2235": "Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)",
  "2236": "Insurance Company",
  "2238":


                        
                        
                            answered 2012-03-23T19:25:28.153


            
            
                
                    
                        
                            
                            
                        
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                        The authoritative list can be reverse engineered from here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php.  But there currently is no way to get this programatically from the graph API.  +1 for adding it.

                        
                        
                            answered 2011-11-02T16:37:37.347



        
        
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