Backstage Entity API
The Entity API from Backstage — 9 operation(s) for entity.
Backstage Entity API is one of 23 APIs that Backstage publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
Tagged areas include Entity. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an AsyncAPI specification.
This API exposes 12 operations across 9 paths, and defines 13 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, /.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Backstage Entity API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (JWT).
Paths & Operations 12
Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 12 operations — 1 DELETE, 6 GET, 5 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 13
The contract defines 13 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are EntityMeta (10 properties), Entity (5 properties), EntityLink (4 properties), EntitiesQueryResponse (3 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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