Backblaze Files API
File upload, download, listing, deletion, and metadata
Backblaze Files API is one of 7 APIs that Backblaze publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include File. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and a getting-started guide.
This API exposes 10 operations across 10 paths, and defines 13 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version v4.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.backblazeb2.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Backblaze Files API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (ApplicationKeyAuth).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (BasicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
ApplicationKeyAuth— Authorization token obtained from b2authorizeaccountBasicAuth— HTTP Basic auth using applicationKeyId as username and applicationKey as password
Paths & Operations 10
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 10 operations — 2 GET, 8 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
File upload, download, listing, deletion, and metadata
Schemas 13
The contract defines 13 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are FileInfo (10 properties), ListFileVersionsRequest (6 properties), CopyFileRequest (5 properties), ListFileNamesRequest (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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