Artifact Hub API

The Artifact Hub REST API provides endpoints for searching and retrieving cloud-native packages across all supported artifact types, managing repositories, handling user authentication and sessions, managing organization memberships, configuring webhooks for release notifications, and administering package security reports. The API is the backend service powering artifacthub.io and is available for self-hosted instances.

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aid: artifact-hub:artifact-hub-api
name: Artifact Hub API
description: The Artifact Hub REST API provides endpoints for searching and retrieving cloud-native packages
  across all supported artifact types, managing repositories, handling user authentication and sessions,
  managing organization memberships, configuring webhooks for release notifications, and administering
  package security reports. The API is the backend service powering artifacthub.io and is available for
  self-hosted instances.
humanURL: https://artifacthub.io/docs/api/
baseURL: https://artifacthub.io/api/v1
tags:
- Package Search
- Registry
- REST API
- Cloud-Native
tags_raw:
- Package Search
- Registry
- REST API
- Cloud Native
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://artifacthub.io/docs/api/
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/artifacthub/hub