instacart Chat API
Endpoints for shopper-customer communication including sending and retrieving chat messages.
instacart Chat API is one of 10 APIs that instacart publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
Tagged areas include Chat. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an AsyncAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 operations across 1 path, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://connect.instacart.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
instacart Chat API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearerAuth— OAuth 2.0 Bearer token obtained using client credentials with the connect:dataingestion scope.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Endpoints for shopper-customer communication including sending and retrieving chat messages.
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ChatMessage (4 properties), Error (2 properties), SendMessageRequest (1 property), ChatMessagesResponse (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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