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BambooHR Employees API

Employee records

BambooHR Employees API is one of 8 APIs that BambooHR publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Employees. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 5 operations across 3 paths, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.bamboohr.com/api/gateway.php/{companyDomain}/v1.

5 operations 3 paths 1 schemas 2 GET3 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
v1
Base URL
https://api.bamboohr.com/api/gateway.php
Authentication
HTTP Basic, OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

BambooHR Employees API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 1 scope.

  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic auth. Use the API key as the username and any non-empty string as the password.
  • oauth2 — OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow (for multi-customer apps).

Paths & Operations 5

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 2 GET, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Employees 5

Employee records

GET
/employees/{id}
Get an employee
getEmployee 2 params → 200
POST
/employees/{id}
Update an employee
updateEmployee 1 param body → 200
POST
/employees
Add an employee
addEmployee body → 201
GET
/employees/{id}/tables/{table}
Get rows from a tabular field for an employee
getEmployeeTable 2 params → 200
POST
/employees/{id}/tables/{table}
Add a row to a tabular field
addEmployeeTableRow 2 params body → 200

Schemas 1

The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is Employee (11 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Employee
object
11 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

bamboohr-employees-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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