United States Postal Service Domestic Prices API
Domestic postage pricing and rate calculation operations
United States Postal Service Domestic Prices API is one of 12 APIs that United States Postal Service publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 9 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Domestic Prices. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, and 9 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://apis.usps.com, https://apis-tem.usps.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
United States Postal Service Domestic Prices API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearerAuth— OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token obtained from the USPS OAuth API.
Paths & Operations 3
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Domestic postage pricing and rate calculation operations
Schemas 7
The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are BaseRateRequest (10 properties), TotalRateRequest (8 properties), ExtraServiceRateRequest (5 properties), Error (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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