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Import categories from TSV
curl --request POST \
  --url https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/categories/import \
  --header 'Content-Type: text/tab-separated-values' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '<string>'
import requests

url = "https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/categories/import"

payload = "<string>"
headers = {
"X-API-Key": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "text/tab-separated-values"
}

response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'X-API-Key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'text/tab-separated-values'},
body: '<string>'
};

fetch('https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/categories/import', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/categories/import",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "<string>",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: text/tab-separated-values",
"X-API-Key: <api-key>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/categories/import"

payload := strings.NewReader("<string>")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "text/tab-separated-values")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/categories/import")
.header("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
.header("Content-Type", "text/tab-separated-values")
.body("<string>")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/categories/import")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'text/tab-separated-values'
request.body = "<string>"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{}

Authorizations

X-API-Key
string
header
required

Breadbox API key with format bb_<base62>. Carries either read_only or full_access scope. Write endpoints (and a handful of sensitive reads — /api-keys, /users/{user_id}/login) require full_access; endpoints that require it are flagged in their description.

Body

The body is of type string.

Response

200 - application/json

Import summary.

The response is of type object.

Last modified on June 25, 2026