Benchling Location API
A Location represents a physical storage area in Benchling's inventory system, such asa freezer, refrigerator, shelf, room, or building. Locations form a hierarchy whereeach location can contain child locations (e.g., a freezer contains shelves) as wellas inventory items like Boxes, Plates, and Containers when allowNonLocationChildren istrue. Each location tracks its capacity (totalCapacity, availableCapacity, occupiedCapacity)and can restrict what types of items it accepts via allowedInventorySchemas. Locationsconform to a LocationSchema that defines custom fields for the location type. Locationsare identified by barcode for physical tracking and can be archived when no longer in use.
Benchling Location API is one of 203 APIs that Benchling publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Location. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, rate-limit docs, and a changelog.
This API exposes 8 operations across 7 paths, and defines 29 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, /api/v3.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 3
Benchling Location API declares
3 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicApiKeyAuth).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicClientIdSecretAuth).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oAuth) using the clientCredentials flow.
By default, every request must be authenticated.
basicApiKeyAuth— Use issued API key for standard access to the APIbasicClientIdSecretAuth— Auth used as part of client credentials OAuth flow prior to receiving a bearer token.oAuth— OAuth2 Client Credentials flow intended for service access
Paths & Operations 8
Across 7 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 2 GET, 3 PATCH, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
A Location represents a physical storage area in Benchling's inventory system, such as a freezer, refrigerator, shelf, room, or building. Locations form a hierarchy where each loc…
Schemas 29
The contract defines 29 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ILocation (16 properties), UpdateLocationInputWithPathParams (7 properties), InternalServerError (6 properties), UpdateLocationInput (6 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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