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Azure Pipelines Build Definitions API

Operations for creating, listing, retrieving, and updating build pipeline definitions that specify how builds are executed.

Azure Pipelines Build Definitions API is one of 11 APIs that Azure Pipelines publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Build Definitions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, and a changelog.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 7.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
7.1
Base URL
https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis
Authentication
HTTP Bearer, HTTP Basic
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Azure Pipelines Build Definitions API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth). It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — Azure AD OAuth 2.0 bearer token with vso.build scope
  • basicAuth — Basic authentication using a Personal Access Token (PAT)

Paths & Operations 2

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

Build Definitions 2

Operations for creating, listing, retrieving, and updating build pipeline definitions that specify how builds are executed.

GET
/build/definitions
Azure Pipelines List build definitions
listBuildDefinitions 12 params → 200401403
GET
/build/definitions/{definitionId}
Azure Pipelines Get a build definition
getBuildDefinition 4 params → 200401404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are BuildDefinitionReference (10 properties), ApiError (6 properties), TeamProjectReference (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TeamProjectReference
object
Shallow reference to a team project
6 properties
BuildDefinitionReference
object
Reference to a build definition containing its identification, folder path, queue status, and type.
10 properties
ApiError
object
Error response from the Azure DevOps API
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

microsoft-azure-pipelines-build-definitions-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Azure Pipelines publishes across the network.

Azure Pipelines Build REST API
Azure Pipelines Release REST API
Azure Pipelines Approvals and Checks REST API
Azure Pipelines Artifacts API
Azure Pipelines Build Artifacts API
Azure Pipelines Build Tags API
Azure Pipelines Builds API
Azure Pipelines Logs API
Azure Pipelines Pipelines API
Azure Pipelines Runs API
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