---
title: "Find Category Metafield"
description: "Use GET /business/{business_id}/categories/{category_id}/metafields/{metafield_id} to retrieve one metafield from a business category."
canonical: https://docs.ordering.co/api-reference/guides/find-categories-metafields/
---

# Find Category Metafield

> **API operation:** [Open the endpoint in Scalar](https://docs.ordering.co/api-reference/#tag/business/GET/business/{business_id}/categories/{category_id}/metafields/{metafield_id})

Use `GET /business/{business_id}/categories/{category_id}/metafields/{metafield_id}` to retrieve one metafield from a business category. The operation is `CategoryMetafield.find`.

The operation requires administrator or business-manager authentication. The controller verifies the business-category-metafield chain before returning the record.

See [Create a category metafield](https://docs.ordering.co/api-reference/guides/create-category-metafield/) and [Extra attributes (Metafields)](https://docs.ordering.co/api-reference/guides/extra-attributes/).

## OpenAPI reference

**Operation:** `GET /business/{business_id}/categories/{category_id}/metafields/{metafield_id}`

**Path parameters**

| Name           | Type    | Required | Description |
| -------------- | ------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `business_id`  | integer | Yes      | —           |
| `category_id`  | integer | Yes      | —           |
| `metafield_id` | integer | Yes      | —           |

**Query parameters**

| Name     | Type   | Required | Description                                                                                                                |
| -------- | ------ | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `params` | string | No       | Comma-separated list of fields. It is intersected with the model’s $fillable; an empty or invalid list returns all fields. |

**Responses**

| Code | Description                           |
| ---- | ------------------------------------- |
| 200  | OK (Envelope)                         |
| 400  | Bad Request (ErrorResponse)           |
| 401  | Unauthorized                          |
| 404  | Not Found                             |
| 429  | Too Many Requests (ErrorResponse)     |
| 500  | Internal Server Error (ErrorResponse) |
| 503  | Service Unavailable (ErrorResponse)   |

[Open this operation in the API reference](https://docs.ordering.co/api-reference/#tag/business/GET/business/{business_id}/categories/{category_id}/metafields/{metafield_id})