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NASA CMR Capabilities API

essential characteristics of this API

NASA CMR Capabilities API is one of 9 APIs that NASA CMR publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

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

This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search.

5 operations 5 paths 7 schemas 5 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 5

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 5 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Capabilities 5

essential characteristics of this API

GET
/
landing page
getProviders → 200500
GET
/docs
information about specifications that this API conforms to
getConformanceDeclaration → 200500
GET
/{providerId}
A provider catalog that contains a STAC search endpoint as well as a collections endpoint for crawling through collections and items in the browser
getProvider → 200500
GET
/{providerId}/collections
Display all feature collections under provider providerId
getCollections 2 params → 200404500
GET
/{providerId}/collections/{collectionId}
describe the feature collection with id collectionId
describeCollection 2 params → 200404500

Schemas 7

The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are collection (7 properties), link (6 properties), landingPage (3 properties), extent (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

landingPage
object
3 properties 1 required
exception
object
Information about the exception: an error code plus an optional description.
2 properties 1 required
confClasses
object
1 property 1 required
collections
object
2 properties 2 required
collection
object
7 properties 2 required
link
object
A generic link.
6 properties 2 required
extent
object
The extent of the features in the collection. In the Core only spatial and temporal extents are specified. Extensions may add additional members to represent o…
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

nasa-cmr-capabilities-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs NASA CMR publishes across the network.

CMR Ingest API
CMR Access Control API
CMR GraphQL API
CMR STAC API
CMR OpenSearch API
NASA CMR Collections API
NASA CMR Data API
NASA CMR STAC API