Sparv API v3 — Text Annotation Pipeline
Sparv is Språkbanken Text's annotation pipeline exposed as a job-submission web service: upload a corpus, generate a makefile, run the pipeline, poll status, download the annotated result. Institution-operated: declared servers are ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/sparv/v3 (production) and /ws/sparvlabb/v3 (lab), contact sb-info@svenska.gu.se, MIT licence. Verified live 2026-09-01: anonymous GET /ping returned HTTP 200 {"message": "PONG", "time": 0.0041}. v2 is still answering on the same host with no published deprecation date.
Sparv API v3 — Text Annotation Pipeline is one of 14 APIs that University of Gothenburg publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Language Technology, Natural Language Processing, Annotation, Pipeline, and Batch. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 13 operations across 12 paths, organized into 4 resource areas, and defines 12 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.2, at version 3.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/sparv/v3, https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/sparvlabb/v3.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Sparv API v3 — Text Annotation Pipeline declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the query as secret_key (ApiKeyAuth).
Paths & Operations 13
Across 12 paths, the API surfaces 13 operations — 11 GET, 2 POST. They span 4 resource areas: Analysis, General, Files, Cleanup. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Queries for Annotating Texts The default query for the text analysis can be sent as GET or POST requests. The latter can be useful for longer texts. In both cases the response is…
File upload and download.
Calls for removing builds.
Schemas 12
The contract defines 12 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are JoinSchema (3 properties), AnalysisSchema (2 properties), FileSchema (2 properties), PingSchema (2 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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