Technical Tip: How to check the web filtering categories corresponding to the category ID

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Description	This article describes the CLI command that can be used to check the web filtering category corresponding to the category ID.
Scope	FortiOS starting 5.4.x onwards.
Solution	To check the CLI command that can be used to check the web filtering category corresponding to the category ID. It is possible to use below command. # get webfilter categories g01 Potentially Liable: 1 Drug Abuse 3 Hacking 4 Illegal or Unethical 5 Discrimination 6 Explicit Violence 12 Extremist Groups 59 Proxy Avoidance 62 Plagiarism 83 Child Abuse g02 Adult/Mature Content: 2 Alternative Beliefs 7 Abortion 8 Other Adult Materials 9 Advocacy Organizations 11 Gambling 13 Nudity and Risque 14 **bleep**ography 15 Dating 16 Weapons (Sales) 57 Marijuana 63 **bleep** Education 64 Alcohol 65 Tobacco 66 Lingerie and Swimsuit 67 Sports Hunting and War Games g04 Bandwidth Consuming: 19 Freeware and Software Downloads 24 File Sharing and Storage 25 Streaming Media and Download 72 Peer-to-peer File Sharing 75 Internet Radio and TV 76 Internet Telephony g05 Security Risk: 26 Malicious Websites 61 Phishing 86 Spam URLs 88 Dynamic DNS 90 Newly Observed Domain 91 Newly Registered Domain g06 General Interest - Personal: 17 Advertising 18 Brokerage and Trading 20 Games 23 Web-based Email 28 Entertainment 29 Arts and Culture 30 Education 33 Health and Wellness 34 Job Search 35 Medicine 36 News and Media 37 Social Networking 38 Political Organizations 39 Reference 40 Global Religion 42 Shopping 44 Society and Lifestyles 46 Sports 47 Travel 48 Personal Vehicles 54 Dynamic Content 55 Meaningless Content 58 Folklore 68 Web Chat 69 Instant Messaging 70 Newsgroups and Message Boards 71 Digital Postcards 77 Child Education 78 Real Estate 79 Restaurant and Dining 80 Personal Websites and Blogs 82 Content Servers 85 Domain Parking 87 Personal Privacy 89 Auction g07 General Interest - Business: 31 Finance and Banking 41 Search Engines and Portals 43 General Organizations 49 Business 50 Information and Computer Security 51 Government and Legal Organizations 52 Information Technology 53 Armed Forces 56 Web Hosting 81 Secure Websites 84 Web-based Applications 92 Charitable Organizations 93 Remote Access 94 Web Analytics 95 Online Meeting g21 Unrated 0 Unrated g22 Local Categories 140 custom1 141 custom2 The current IDs of all the predefined categories are shown as a reference.