Digital Ocean Snapshots API
[Snapshots](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshots/) are savedinstances of a Droplet or a block storage volume, which is reflected inthe `resource_type` attribute. In order to avoid problems with compressingfilesystems, each defines a `min_disk_size` attribute which is the minimumsize of the Droplet or volume disk when creating a new resource from thesaved snapshot.To interact with snapshots, you will generally send requests to thesnapshots endpoint at `/v2/snapshots`.
Digital Ocean Snapshots 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 Snapshots. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 3 operations across 2 paths, and defines 13 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.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Digital Ocean Snapshots 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 3
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
[Snapshots](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshots/) are saved instances of a Droplet or a block storage volume, which is reflected in the resourcetype attribute. In ord…
Schemas 13
The contract defines 13 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are snapshots_base (5 properties), error (3 properties), meta (1 property), meta_properties (1 property). 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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