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VMware Content Library API

Content library management for templates, ISOs, and OVF packages shared across vCenter instances

VMware Content Library API is one of 59 APIs that VMware publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Content Library. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, an API reference, a JSON-LD context, code examples, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 8.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{vcenter}/api.

4 operations 2 paths 2 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
8.0
Base URL
https://{{vcenter}}/api
Authentication
API Key, HTTP Basic
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

VMware Content Library API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as vmware-api-session-id (sessionAuth). It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • sessionAuth — Session token obtained from POST /session. Include this header in all subsequent API requests.
  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic authentication using vCenter Server credentials. Used primarily for creating sessions.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Content Library 4

Content library management for templates, ISOs, and OVF packages shared across vCenter instances

GET
/content/library
Vmware List Content Libraries
listContentLibraries → 200401
POST
/content/library
Vmware Create a Content Library
createContentLibrary body → 201400401
GET
/content/library/{library_id}
Vmware Get Content Library Details
getContentLibrary 1 param → 200401404
DELETE
/content/library/{library_id}
Vmware Delete a Content Library
deleteContentLibrary 1 param → 204401404

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are LibraryInfo (9 properties), LibraryCreateSpec (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

LibraryInfo
object
Content library details
9 properties
LibraryCreateSpec
object
Specification for creating a content library
4 properties 3 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

vmware-content-library-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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