CarbonGuru Reference API

NAICS, industry sectors, emission factors, countries.

Operations 6

GET /v1/reference/naics Semantic NAICS search #
GET /v1/reference/naics/{code} A NAICS code's place in the hierarchy #
GET /v1/reference/sectors Industry-sector search across NAICS and Open CEDA #
GET /v1/reference/sectors/{code} One NAICS or Open CEDA sector #
GET /v1/reference/emission-factors/{naics_code} The emission factor for one NAICS code #
GET /v1/reference/countries The geographic contexts available for analysis #

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OpenAPI Specification

carbonguru-io-reference-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: CarbonGuru Reference API
  version: 0.1.0
  summary: Carbon footprint analysis, history and reference data for a developer's own server.
  description: 'One API over the CarbonGuru platform: carbon-footprint analysis of products, carts, text, structured items and files; the sessions, exports and history those analyses produce; reference data; offsets for the account itself; and, for an account with a connected store, catalog footprints, the live footprint read, offset ordering and webhooks. Authenticate with `Authorization: Bearer `. A test key, made in the same place, connects the same way and records every order it posts as a preview: nothing is bought. Errors are RFC 9457 problem documents. Every response carries `X-Request-ID`. Writes accept an `Idempotency-Key`. Lists page with an opaque `next_cursor`. No route accepts terms, saves a payment method or starts automatic offsetting: a signed-in person does those in the account.'
  contact:
    name: CarbonGuru
    url: https://carbonguru.io
servers:
- url: https://carbonguru.io
  description: Production
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Reference
  description: NAICS, industry sectors, emission factors, countries.
paths:
  /v1/reference/naics:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: searchNaics
      summary: Semantic NAICS search
      security:
      - bearerAuth:
        - carbon:reference
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          minLength: 2
      - name: limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 25
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PlatformPayload'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/UnprocessableContent'
  /v1/reference/naics/{code}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: getNaicsCode
      summary: A NAICS code's place in the hierarchy
      security:
      - bearerAuth:
        - carbon:reference
      parameters:
      - name: code
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PlatformPayload'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /v1/reference/sectors:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: searchSectors
      summary: Industry-sector search across NAICS and Open CEDA
      security:
      - bearerAuth:
        - carbon:reference
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          minLength: 2
      - name: system
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - naics
          - open_ceda
      - name: sector_level
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 2
          maximum: 6
      - name: country_code
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: ISO 3-letter code, for an Open CEDA emission factor.
      - name: limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 25
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PlatformPayload'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/UnprocessableContent'
  /v1/reference/sectors/{code}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: getSector
      summary: One NAICS or Open CEDA sector
      security:
      - bearerAuth:
        - carbon:reference
      parameters:
      - name: code
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: country_code
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PlatformPayload'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /v1/reference/emission-factors/{naics_code}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: getEmissionFactor
      summary: The emission factor for one NAICS code
      security:
      - bearerAuth:
        - carbon:reference
      parameters:
      - name: naics_code
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PlatformPayload'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /v1/reference/countries:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference
      operationId: listCountries
      summary: The geographic contexts available for analysis
      security:
      - bearerAuth:
        - carbon:reference
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PlatformPayload'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
components:
  schemas:
    Problem:
      type: object
      description: RFC 9457 problem document. Served as application/problem+json.
      required:
      - type
      - title
      - status
      - detail
      - code
      - request_id
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          description: A stable identifier for this problem kind.
        title:
          type: string
        status:
          type: integer
        detail:
          type: string
        code:
          type: string
          description: The machine-readable name to branch on.
        request_id:
          type: string
        errors:
          type: array
          description: Field-level problems, when the refusal is about the request's fields.
          items:
            type: object
        required_scope:
          type: string
          description: Present on insufficient_scope.
        retry_after:
          type: string
          description: Present on a 429, beside the Retry-After header.
        max_size_bytes:
          type: integer
          description: Present on file_too_large.
        min_tier:
          type: string
          description: Present on feature_not_entitled.
        current_tier:
          type: string
          description: Present on feature_not_entitled.
        upgrade_url:
          type: string
          description: Present on feature_not_entitled.
        details:
          type: object
          description: Present on mapping_limit_exceeded.
  headers:
    XRequestID:
      description: The request id, echoed from the caller when it is a sane token, else minted. On every response and in every log line.
      schema:
        type: string
  responses:
    Forbidden:
      description: A missing scope, an exhausted analysis allowance, or an object that is not the caller's.
      headers:
        X-Request-ID:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/XRequestID'
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
    NotFound:
      description: No such resource.
      headers:
        X-Request-ID:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/XRequestID'
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
    Unauthorized:
      description: No valid credential. Every authentication failure returns this one document.
      headers:
        X-Request-ID:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/XRequestID'
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
    PlatformPayload:
      description: The platform's payload, passed through unchanged.
      headers:
        X-Request-ID:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/XRequestID'
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
    UnprocessableContent:
      description: The request's fields are wrong. errors[] names them.
      headers:
        X-Request-ID:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/XRequestID'
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: An API key from /my-account/api/ (`sk_merchant_…`), or a CarbonGuru OAuth access token. A test key (`sk_merchant_test_…`) connects like a live key; every order it posts is recorded as a preview and nothing is bought. Auth runs before body validation, and every failure returns the same 401.