Tire Categories

List all tire categories in the catalog. Categories classify tires by application (e.g. “Passenger Car”, “Commercial Truck/Bus”, “Agricultural”). Use these values with the category and exclude_category filters on search and catalog endpoints.

Case-insensitive filtering. Category values are case-insensitive as filter values — for example, category=Passenger Car and category=passenger car produce the same results.

List Tire Categories

GET /api/v1/tire-categories

Returns all tire categories sorted by tire count (most common first). No pagination — the dataset is small enough to return in a single request.

Code Examples

curl -H "x-api-key: tl_live_your_key" \
  "https://app.tireweblibrary.com/api/v1/tire-categories"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://app.tireweblibrary.com/api/v1/tire-categories",
  { headers: { "x-api-key": "tl_live_your_key" } }
);
const categories = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://app.tireweblibrary.com/api/v1/tire-categories",
    headers={"x-api-key": "tl_live_your_key"},
)
categories = response.json()

Response

Returns a flat JSON array of category strings, ordered by tire count descending.

[
  "Commercial Truck/Bus",
  "Passenger Car",
  "Passenger Light Truck/SUV, Light Truck",
  "Agricultural, Lawn & Garden/Golf",
  "Trailer, Special Trailer (ST)",
  "Passenger Car, CAR, Performance, UHP",
  "OTR/Construction, Earthmover",
  "..."
]

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
`(element)`	string	Category string for use as `category` or `exclude_category` filter values

Note: Categories are exact-match strings. exclude_category=Passenger Car excludes only tires with the exact category “Passenger Car” — it does not exclude “Passenger Car, Performance, Touring”. To exclude multiple categories, repeat the parameter for each value.

Error Responses

Status	Condition
`401`	Missing or invalid API key

Related Endpoints

Tires — use category values with category and exclude_category filters
Tire Patterns — use category values with category and exclude_category filters

Category Reference

The complete list of 70 tire categories, grouped by application.

Passenger Car

Category
`Passenger Car`
`Passenger Car, CAR`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Classic/Vintage`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Classic/Vintage, Performance, Touring`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Competition/Racing`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Competition/Racing, Performance`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Competition/Racing, Performance, UHP`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Performance`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Performance, HP`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Performance, HP, Touring`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Performance, Touring`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Performance, UHP`
`Passenger Car, CAR, Performance, UHP, HP`
`Passenger Car, CAR, SUV/CUV`
`Passenger Car, CAR, SUV/CUV, Performance`
`Passenger Car, CAR, SUV/CUV, Performance, HP`
`Passenger Car, CAR, SUV/CUV, Performance, Touring`
`Passenger Car, CAR, SUV/CUV, Performance, UHP`
`Passenger Car, Performance`
`Passenger Car, Performance, HP`
`Passenger Car, Performance, Touring`
`Passenger Car, Performance, UHP`
`Passenger Car, SUV/CUV`
`Passenger Car, SUV/CUV, Performance`
`Passenger Car, SUV/CUV, Performance, HP`
`Passenger Car, SUV/CUV, Performance, HP, Touring`
`Passenger Car, SUV/CUV, Performance, Touring`
`Passenger Car, SUV/CUV, Performance, UHP`

Passenger Light Truck/SUV

Category
`Passenger Light Truck/SUV`
`Passenger Light Truck/SUV, Light Truck`
`Passenger Light Truck/SUV, Light Truck, SUV`
`Passenger Light Truck/SUV, SUV`

Commercial

Category
`Commercial Light Truck/Van`
`Commercial Light Truck/Van, Commercial Light Truck`
`Commercial Light Truck/Van, Commercial Van`
`Commercial Truck/Bus`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Bus/Coach`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Bus/Coach, Service/Application, Regional Service, Long Haul`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Medium-Duty Truck`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Medium-Duty Truck, Service/Application`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Service/Application`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Service/Application, Long Haul`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Service/Application, Mixed-S`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Service/Application, Regional Service`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Service/Application, Regional Service, Long Haul`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Service/Application, Regional Service, Mixed-S`
`Commercial Truck/Bus, Service/Application, Urban/P`

Agricultural

Category
`Agricultural`
`Agricultural, Forestry/Logging`
`Agricultural, Front Tractor`
`Agricultural, High Flotation`
`Agricultural, Implement`
`Agricultural, Lawn & Garden/Golf`
`Agricultural, Rear Tractor`
`Agricultural, Tractor`

OTR/Construction

Category
`OTR/Construction`
`OTR/Construction, Compactor`
`OTR/Construction, Earthmover`
`OTR/Construction, Loader/Dozer/Grader`

Industrial

Category
`Industrial`

Sport ATV/UTV

Category
`Sport ATV/UTV`
`Sport ATV/UTV, Sport ATV`
`Sport ATV/UTV, Sport UTV/SXS`
`Sport ATV/UTV, Sport UTV/SXS, Sport ATV`

Trailer

Category
`Trailer`
`Trailer, Special Trailer (ST)`

Motorcycle

Category
`Motorcycle`

Temporary Spare

Category
`Temporary Spare`
`Temporary Spare, Temporary/Compact Spare`

Undefined

Category
`Undefined`