Bird Email Mailboxes API
Durable mailbox identities for agents. A mailbox owns an address, applies receive policy through allow/block rules, and remembers conversations for its retention tier.
Bird Email Mailboxes API is one of 65 APIs that Bird publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
Tagged areas include email-mailboxes. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and an AsyncAPI specification.
This API exposes 11 operations across 7 paths, and defines 27 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://{region}.platform.bird.com, https://platform.bird.com, http://localhost:8080.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 4
Bird Email Mailboxes API declares
4 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (BearerAuth).
An API key is passed in the cookie as bird_session (CookieAuth).
An API key is passed in the header as X-Realtime-Key (RealtimeKey).
An API key is passed in the header as X-Realtime-Secret (RealtimeSecret).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
BearerAuth— Pass the API key as a bearer token in the Authorization header. Keys use the format bk{region}. The prefix identifies the region and selects the API endpoint.…CookieAuth— Session cookie set after signing in to the Bird dashboard. The cookie value is an opaque session token; no session data is stored in the cookie itself.RealtimeKey— The Realtime app key. Together with X-Realtime-Secret, it authenticates a request to the Realtime API in addition to the workspace credential. Both values come…RealtimeSecret— The Realtime app secret paired with X-Realtime-Key. The API returns the secret only when the key is created and does not store it. Create a new key and revoke…
Paths & Operations 11
Across 7 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 2 DELETE, 4 GET, 1 PATCH, 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Durable mailbox identities for agents. A mailbox owns an address, applies receive policy through allow/block rules, and remembers conversations for its retention tier.
Schemas 27
The contract defines 27 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Mailbox (19 properties), EmailDeliveryStats (15 properties), ErrorBody (11 properties), EmailBounceStatsWithRates (10 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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