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Azure Pipelines Pipelines API

Operations for managing YAML-based pipeline definitions including creating, listing, and retrieving pipeline configurations.

Azure Pipelines Pipelines 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 Pipelines. 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 3 operations across 2 paths, and defines 6 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.

3 operations 2 paths 6 schemas 2 GET1 POST

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 Pipelines 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 3

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

Pipelines 3

Operations for managing YAML-based pipeline definitions including creating, listing, and retrieving pipeline configurations.

GET
/pipelines
Azure Pipelines List pipelines
listPipelines 4 params → 200401403
POST
/pipelines
Azure Pipelines Create a pipeline
createPipeline 1 param body → 200400401403
GET
/pipelines/{pipelineId}
Azure Pipelines Get a pipeline
getPipeline 3 params → 200401403404

Schemas 6

The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Pipeline (7 properties), ApiError (6 properties), BuildRepository (5 properties), ReferenceLinks (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

BuildRepository
object
Repository configuration for a pipeline
5 properties
PipelineConfiguration
object
Configuration details specifying how a pipeline is defined including the type, YAML file path, and source repository.
3 properties
ReferenceLinks
object
HAL links for navigating to related resources
4 properties
Pipeline
object
An Azure DevOps pipeline definition representing a YAML-based CI/CD workflow stored in a source repository.
7 properties
ApiError
object
Error response from the Azure DevOps API
6 properties
CreatePipelineParameters
object
Parameters for creating a new pipeline definition
3 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

microsoft-azure-pipelines-pipelines-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 Definitions API
Azure Pipelines Build Tags API
Azure Pipelines Builds API
Azure Pipelines Logs API
Azure Pipelines Runs API
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