ngrok Backends API
Backends define how traffic is handled, including tunnel group, weighted, failover, HTTP response, and static address backends.
ngrok Backends API is one of 24 APIs that ngrok publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 12 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Backends. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a JSON-LD context, a GitHub repository, and 12 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 25 operations across 10 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.ngrok.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
ngrok Backends API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (apiKeyAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearerAuth— Use an ngrok API key as a Bearer token. Create API keys from the ngrok dashboard or via the API Keys endpoints.apiKeyAuth— Pass the API key in the Authorization header prefixed with 'Bearer '.
Paths & Operations 25
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 25 operations — 5 DELETE, 10 GET, 5 PATCH, 5 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Backends define how traffic is handled, including tunnel group, weighted, failover, HTTP response, and static address backends.
Schemas 11
The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are HttpResponseBackend (8 properties), TunnelGroupBackend (7 properties), StaticAddressBackend (7 properties), FailoverBackend (6 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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