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# Get Channel Category

**Introduction**

The "Get Channel Category" step is designed to retrieve the category (parent) of a specified guild channel.

**Configuration**

* **Channel**: Select the guild channel for which you want to find the category. This could be any type of channel within the guild, such as text, voice, stage, etc.

**Outputs**

* **Category**: The output variable that represents the category of the specified channel. If the channel is not part of any category, this variable will be null/empty.