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## Resource: Introduction

## Article: Introduction

## Article Link: https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/feedback-moderation/comments/categories/introduction.md

## Article Content:

# About the Categories API
The Categories API allows you to define settings for a specified group of comments. For example, you can specify which site visitors can comment, react, and reply to a site's blog posts or whether to require submitting a rating when leaving comments on product pages.

With the Categories API, you can:

+ [Create](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/categories/create-category.md) and [update](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/categories/update-category.md) categories.
+ [Retrieve](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/categories/get-category.md) or [query](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/categories/query-category.md) categories.
+ Handle events that trigger when a category is [created](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/categories/category-created.md) or [updated](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/categories/category-updated.md).

## Use cases
+ [Turn off guest commenting for a category to avoid spam.](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/categories/sample-flows.md)
+ [Retrieve all recent comments from a specific category.](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/sample-flow.md#retrieve-all-recent-comments-from-a-specific-category)
+ [Restrict permissions for replies to comments on product pages.](https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference/crm/community/comments/categories/sample-flows.md)
+ [Handle comments when deleting a category](https://dev.wix.com/api-reference/crm/community/comments/sample-flow#handle-comments-before-deleting-a-category).

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