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Digital Ocean Images API

A DigitalOcean [image](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/) can beused to create a Droplet and may come in a number of flavors. Currently,there are five types of images: snapshots, backups, applications,distributions, and custom images.* [Snapshots](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshots/) providea full copy of an existing Droplet instance taken on demand.* [Backups](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/backups/) are similarto snapshots but are created automatically at regular intervals whenenabled for a Droplet.* [Custom images](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/custom-images/)are Linux-based virtual machine images (raw, qcow2, vhdx, vdi, and vmdkformats are supported) that you may upload for use on DigitalOcean.* Distributions are the public Linux distributions that are available tobe used as a base to create Droplets.* Applications, or [1-Click Apps](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/marketplace/),are distributions pre-configured with additional software.To interact with images, you will generally send requests to the imagesendpoint at /v2/images.

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io OpenAPI GitHub

Digital Ocean Images API is one of 37 APIs that Digital Ocean publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Image. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths, and defines 20 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.digitalocean.com.

5 operations 2 paths 20 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
2.0
Base URL
https://api.digitalocean.com/v2
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Contact
DigitalOcean API Team
License
Apache 2.0
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Digital Ocean Images API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearer_auth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearer_auth — OAuth Authentication In order to interact with the DigitalOcean API, you or your application must authenticate. The DigitalOcean API handles this through OAuth…

Paths & Operations 5

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Images 5

A DigitalOcean [image](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/) can be used to create a Droplet and may come in a number of flavors. Currently, there are five types of imag…

GET
/v2/images
List All Images
images_list 5 params → 200401429500default
POST
/v2/images
Create a Custom Image
images_create_custom body → 202401429500default
GET
/v2/images/{image_id}
Retrieve an Existing Image
images_get 1 param → 200401404429500default
PUT
/v2/images/{image_id}
Update an Image
images_update 1 param body → 200401404429500default
DELETE
/v2/images/{image_id}
Delete an Image
images_delete 1 param → 204401404429500default

Schemas 20

The contract defines 20 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are image (14 properties), error (3 properties), image_update (3 properties), link_to_next_page (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

distribution
string
The name of a custom image's distribution. Currently, the valid values are Arch Linux, CentOS, CoreOS, Debian, Fedora, Fedora Atomic, FreeBSD, Gentoo, openSUSE…
regions_array
array
This attribute is an array of the regions that the image is available in. The regions are represented by their identifying slug values.
link_to_prev_page
object
1 property
page_links
object
1 property
link_to_last_page
object
1 property
region_slug
string
The slug identifier for the region where the resource will initially be available.
forward_links
image_new_custom
object
3 required
image_description
string
An optional free-form text field to describe an image.
pagination
object
1 property
link_to_first_page
object
1 property
error
object
3 properties 2 required
backward_links
image_name
string
The display name that has been given to an image. This is what is shown in the control panel and is generally a descriptive title for the image in question.
meta_properties
object
Information about the response itself.
1 property
meta
object
1 property 1 required
image
object
14 properties
link_to_next_page
object
1 property
tags_array
array
A flat array of tag names as strings to be applied to the resource. Tag names may be for either existing or new tags.
image_update
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

digital-ocean-images-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
digital-ocean:digital-ocean-images-api
Base URL
https://api.digitalocean.com/v2
Docs
https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/
Provider
Digital Ocean
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