Pixelfed Statuses API
Creating, reading, and interacting with statuses (posts)
Pixelfed Statuses API is one of 17 APIs that Pixelfed publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Status. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a GitHub repository, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 12 operations across 11 paths, and defines 10 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{instance}/api.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Pixelfed Statuses API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 4 scopes.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (OAuth2) (BearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 12
Across 11 paths, the API surfaces 12 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 7 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Creating, reading, and interacting with statuses (posts)
Schemas 10
The contract defines 10 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Status (28 properties), Account (17 properties), MediaAttachment (8 properties), Poll (7 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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