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Estuary Connectors API

The Connectors API from Estuary — 3 operation(s) for connectors.

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

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

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.estuary.dev.

3 operations 3 paths 5 schemas 2 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.estuary.dev
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Estuary Connectors API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — Access token obtained from /rpc/generateaccesstoken by exchanging a refresh token. Sent as Authorization: Bearer .

Paths & Operations 3

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 2 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Connectors 3
POST
/discovers
Run connector schema discovery.
createDiscover body → 201
GET
/connectors
List available capture and materialization connectors.
listConnectors → 200
GET
/connector_tags
List tagged image versions of connectors and their endpoint spec schemas.
listConnectorTags → 200

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ConnectorTag (6 properties), Connector (5 properties), Discover (5 properties), DiscoverCreate (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ConnectorTag
object
6 properties
DiscoverCreate
object
4 properties 3 required
Discover
object
5 properties
JobStatus
object
1 property
Connector
object
5 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

estuary-connectors-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Estuary publishes across the network.

Estuary Auth API
Estuary Captures API
Estuary Collections API
Estuary Drafts API
Estuary Materializations API
Estuary Publications API
Estuary Tenants API