Craft Quantities Units API
Conversions by the exact factors the calculators use.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Craftquantities Com Units API
version: 1.6.0
contact:
url: https://craftquantities.com/api/
license:
name: CC BY 4.0
url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
description: 'Operations tagged Units across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: craftquantities-com-openapi.json, craftquantities-com-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://api.craftquantities.com/v1
tags:
- name: Units
description: Conversions by the exact factors the calculators use.
paths:
/convert:
get:
operationId: convertUnits
summary: Convert a value between units with the site's exact factors
parameters:
- name: value
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: number
- name: from
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
maxLength: 40
- name: to
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
maxLength: 40
- name: dimension
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
maxLength: 40
- name: detail
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
enum:
- full
- summary
default: full
description: 'full (the default): the whole answer. summary: the result lines, the citation line and the page only — fewer tokens to read.'
description: 'summary: the result lines, the citation and the page only (fewer tokens); full, the default: the whole answer. A POST body may carry detail instead.'
- name: format
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
enum:
- json
- md
description: 'md: the engine''s Markdown report as text/markdown (or send Accept: text/markdown); json, the default.'
responses:
'200':
description: The converted value and the factor.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
anyOf:
- type: object
required:
- value
- from
- to
- dimension
- factor
properties:
value:
type: number
from:
type: object
required:
- unit
- symbol
- label
properties:
unit:
type: string
symbol:
type: string
label:
type: string
to:
type: object
required:
- unit
- symbol
- label
- value
properties:
unit:
type: string
symbol:
type: string
label:
type: string
value:
type: number
dimension:
type: string
factor:
anyOf:
- type: number
- type: 'null'
- type: object
required:
- detail
- tool
- title
- lines
- notes
- citation
- url
- open
- more
properties:
detail:
const: summary
tool:
type: string
title:
type: string
lines:
type: array
items:
type: object
additionalProperties:
type: string
description: The result lines, as the report's table gives them.
notes:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: 'What a professional must decide, when to call one, a false-friend warning, that adoption is local: kept in every summary.'
citation:
type: string
description: The one citation line, built from the answer's own data.
url:
anyOf:
- type: string
- type: 'null'
open:
anyOf:
- type: string
- type: 'null'
more:
anyOf:
- type: string
- type: 'null'
'400':
description: The request was refused; every problem is listed.
content:
application/problem+json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- title
- status
- problems
properties:
type:
type: string
title:
type: string
status:
type: integer
problems:
type: array
items:
type: object
required:
- input
- problem
properties:
input:
type: string
problem:
type: string
accepted:
type: array
items:
type: string
didYouMean:
type: array
items:
type: string
tags:
- Units
servers:
- url: https://api.craftquantities.com/v1
externalDocs:
url: https://craftquantities.com/api/
description: The API documentation
x-refined-from:
- craftquantities-com-openapi.json
- craftquantities-com-openapi.yml