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# API documentation
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Several tasks of CodiMD can be automated through HTTP requests.
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The available endpoints for this api are described in this document.
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For code-autogeneration there is an OpenAPIv3-compatible description available [here](openapi.yml).
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## Notes
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These endpoints create notes, return information about them or export them.
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You have to replace _\<NOTE\>_ with either the alias or id of a note you want to work on.
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| Endpoint | HTTP-Method | Description |
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| `/new` | `GET` | **Creates a new note.**<br>A random id will be assigned and the content will equal to the template (blank by default). After note creation a redirect is issued to the created note. |
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| `/new` | `POST` | **Imports some markdown data into a new note.**<br>A random id will be assigned and the content will equal to the body of the received HTTP-request. The `Content-Type: text/markdown` header should be set on this request. |
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| `/new/<ALIAS>` | `POST` | **Imports some markdown data into a new note with a given alias.**<br>This endpoint equals to the above one except that the alias from the url will be assigned to the note if [FreeURL-mode](../configuration-env-vars.md#users-and-privileges) is enabled. |
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| `/<NOTE>/download` or `/s/<SHORT-ID>/download` | `GET` | **Returns the raw markdown content of a note.** |
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| `/<NOTE>/pdf` | `GET` | **Returns a generated pdf version of the note.**<br>If pdf-support is disabled, a HTTP 403 will be returned.<br>_Please note: Currently pdf export is disabled generally because of a security problem with it._ |
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| `/<NOTE>/publish` | `GET` | **Redirects to the published version of the note.** |
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| `/<NOTE>/slide` | `GET` | **Redirects to the slide-presentation of the note.**<br>This is only useful on notes which are designed to be slides. |
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| `/<NOTE>/info` | `GET` | **Returns metadata about the note.**<br>This includes the title and description of the note as well as the creation date and viewcount. The data is returned as a JSON object. |
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| `/<NOTE>/revision` | `GET` | **Returns a list of the available note revisions.**<br>The list is returned as a JSON object with an array of revision-id and length associations. The revision-id equals to the timestamp when the revision was saved. |
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| `/<NOTE>/revision/<REVISION-ID>` | `GET` | **Returns the revision of the note with some metadata.**<br>The revision is returned as a JSON object with the content of the note and the authorship. |
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| `/<NOTE>/gist` | `GET` | **Creates a new GitHub Gist with the note's content.**<br>If [GitHub integration](../configuration-env-vars.md#github-login) is configured, the user will be redirected to GitHub and a new Gist with the content of the note will be created. |
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## User / History
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These endpoints return information about the current logged-in user and it's note history. If no user is logged-in, the most of this requests will fail with either a HTTP 403 or a JSON object containing `{"status":"forbidden"}`.
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| Endpoint | HTTP-Method | Description |
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| `/me` | `GET` | **Returns the profile data of the current logged-in user.**<br>The data is returned as a JSON object containing the user-id, the user's name and a url to the profile picture. |
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| `/me/export` | `GET` | **Exports a zip-archive with all notes of the current user.** |
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| `/history` | `GET` | **Returns a list of the last viewed notes.**<br>The list is returned as a JSON object with an array containing for each entry it's id, title, tags, last visit time and pinned status. |
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| `/history` | `POST` | **Replace user's history with a new one.**<br>The body must be form-encoded and contain a field `history` with a JSON-encoded array like its returned from the server when exporting the history. |
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| `/history` | `DELETE` | **Deletes the user's history.** |
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| `/history/<NOTE>` | `POST` | **Toggles the pinned status in the history for a note.**<br>The body must be form-encoded and contain a field `pinned` that is either `true` or `false`.
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| `/history/<NOTE>` | `DELETE` | **Deletes a note from the user's history.** |
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## CodiMD-server
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These endpoints return information about the running CodiMD instance.
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| `/status` | `GET` | **Returns the current status of the CodiMD instance.**<br>The data is returned as a JSON object containing the number of notes stored on the server, (distinct) online users and more. |
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