# Ubuntu Hardware API (hwapi)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/canonical/hardware-api/  
**Provider:** Canonical — https://apis.io/providers/canonical/  
**Base URL:** https://hw.ubuntu.com  
**Documentation:** https://hw.ubuntu.com/docs

Ubuntu Hardware API (hwapi) is one of 22 APIs that [Canonical](https://apis.io/providers/canonical/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Hardware and Certification. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

The Ubuntu hardware certification API. Given a machine's hardware identifiers it reports whether that configuration is certified for Ubuntu and on which releases. Serves its own OpenAPI 3.1.0 contract at https://hw.ubuntu.com/openapi.json.

## Operations (2)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/v1/certification/status` | Check Certification |
| GET | `/` | Root |

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/canonical/refs/heads/main/openapi/canonical-hardware-api-openapi.json
- **Overlay** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/canonical/refs/heads/main/overlays/canonical-hardware-api-overlay.yaml
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/canonical/hardware-api
- **Portal** — https://ubuntu.com/certified

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## Tags

Hardware, Certification

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