Microsoft Purview Glossary API
Operations for managing glossary terms, categories, and assignments
Microsoft Purview Glossary API is one of 44 APIs that Microsoft Purview publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Glossary. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, pricing, a getting-started guide, and an API reference.
This API exposes 19 operations across 10 paths, and defines 15 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://{accountName}.purview.azure.com/catalog, https://{accountName}.purview.azure.com/datamap.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Microsoft Purview Glossary API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 1 scope.
By default, every request must be authenticated.
oauth2— Azure Active Directory OAuth2 authentication
Paths & Operations 19
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 19 operations — 4 DELETE, 7 GET, 5 POST, 3 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Operations for managing glossary terms, categories, and assignments
Schemas 15
The contract defines 15 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AtlasGlossaryTerm (13 properties), AtlasGlossary (9 properties), AtlasGlossaryCategory (9 properties), AtlasGlossary_2 (9 properties). 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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