I look a bit thorough some of the previously asked questions and stumbled upon /wp-json/wp/v2/pages/?slug=news (and other permutations) but it doesn't turn anything up. I'm kind of stuck on how to get posts for each category. I looked at /wp-json/wp/v2/ for trying to get a grasp on how routes work and looked at categories, but couldn't figure it out. I also checked out /wp/v2/posts?filter[category_name]=news but it just ends up being the same post no matter what I change the category name to.

I look a bit thorough some of the previously asked questions and stumbled upon /wp-json/wp/v2/pages/?slug=news (and other permutations) but it doesn't turn anything up. I'm kind of stuck on how to get posts for each category. I looked at /wp-json/wp/v2/ for trying to get a grasp on how routes work and looked at categories, but couldn't figure it out. I also checked out /wp/v2/posts?filter[category_name]=news but it just ends up being the same post no matter what I change the category name to.

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If you want to retrieve posts, you need to use the posts endpoint for starters, not pages. So that's wp-json/wp/v2/posts. The documentation for that endpoint is here.

As you can see in the documentation, under List Posts, you can retrieve posts for a specific category using the categories argument. However, you need to use the category ID, not the slug.

http://example/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?categories=14

If you absolutely must use the slug, then you need to retrieve that first, from the categories endpoint:

http://example/wp-json/wp/v2/categories/?slug=news

That will retrieve any categories with news as the slug. This response will include the category ID which you can store and use to query posts with that category.