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Paperspace

Paperspace Machines API

Programmatically manage Paperspace virtual machines — GPU and CPU compute instances. Covers the machine lifecycle (create, start, stop, restart, delete), machine events, team-member access grants per machine, desktop streaming configuration, and a region-keyed machine-availability lookup.

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Paperspace Machines API is one of 25 APIs that Paperspace publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Compute, GPU, Machines, and Cloud. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, a JSON-LD context, and 2 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 9 operations across 6 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version v1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.paperspace.com/v1.

9 operations 6 paths 5 schemas 1 DELETE3 GET3 PATCH1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
v1
Server
https://api.paperspace.com/v1
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Paperspace Machines API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (api-key) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 9

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 1 DELETE, 3 GET, 3 PATCH, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Machines 9

Virtual machine lifecycle and metadata.

GET
/machines
List Machines
listMachines 4 params → 200
POST
/machines
Create Machine
createMachine body → 201
GET
/machines/{id}
Get Machine
getMachine 1 param → 200
PUT
/machines/{id}
Update Machine
updateMachine 1 param body → 200
DELETE
/machines/{id}
Delete Machine
deleteMachine 1 param → 204
PATCH
/machines/{id}/start
Start Machine
startMachine 1 param → 200
PATCH
/machines/{id}/stop
Stop Machine
stopMachine 1 param → 200
PATCH
/machines/{id}/restart
Restart Machine
restartMachine 1 param → 200
GET
/machines/{id}/desktop
Get Desktop Streaming Configuration
getMachineDesktop 1 param → 200

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Machine (18 properties), MachineCreate (8 properties), MachineUpdate (4 properties), DesktopConfig (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

DesktopConfig
object
4 properties
MachineCreate
object
8 properties 4 required
MachineList
object
3 properties
MachineUpdate
object
4 properties
Machine
object
18 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

paperspace-machines-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
paperspace:paperspace-machines-api
Server
https://api.paperspace.com/v1
Docs
https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/paperspace/api-reference/machine/
Provider
Paperspace
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