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ServiceNow Emergency Changes API

Operations for managing emergency change requests that require expedited processing.

ServiceNow Emergency Changes API is one of 63 APIs that ServiceNow publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Emergency Changes. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

This API exposes 2 operations across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version Yokohama.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{instance}.service-now.com/api/sn_chg_rest/v1.

2 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
Yokohama
Base URL
https://{instance}.service-now.com/api/now/table
Authentication
HTTP Basic, OAuth 2.0
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

ServiceNow Emergency Changes API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the password flow. By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — Basic authentication with ServiceNow credentials. The user must have the changemanager, changeadmin, or itil role.
  • oauth2 — OAuth 2.0 authentication using ServiceNow's OAuth provider.

Paths & Operations 2

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Emergency Changes 2

Operations for managing emergency change requests that require expedited processing.

GET
/change/emergency
Servicenow List Emergency Change Requests
listEmergencyChanges 5 params → 200401
POST
/change/emergency
Servicenow Create an Emergency Change Request
createEmergencyChange body → 201400

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ChangeRequest (21 properties), ChangeRequestInput (16 properties), Error (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Error
object
1 property
ChangeRequest
object
A ServiceNow change request record.
21 properties
ChangeRequestInput
object
Fields for creating or updating a change request.
16 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

servicenow-emergency-changes-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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ServiceNow Application Service API
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