# Cytado API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cytado-com/cytado-com-api/  
**Provider:** Cytado — https://apis.io/providers/cytado-com/  
**Documentation:** https://cytado.com/citation-api

Cytado API is one of 2 APIs that [Cytado](https://apis.io/providers/cytado-com/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 6 JSON Schema definitions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 6 JSON Schemas.

Cytado API as documented publicly: 14 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-11-04); not the provider's own document.

## Operations (14)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/api/ext/chapter-sources` | POST /api/ext/chapter-sources |
| POST | `/api/ext/check-bibliography` | Check whether a citation is real, before a reviewer does |
| GET | `/api/ext/corpus` | Enqueue corpus build or read. |
| POST | `/api/ext/corpus` | POST /api/ext/corpus |
| GET | `/api/ext/corpus/status` | Poll corpus build status. |
| POST | `/api/ext/corpus/status` | POST /api/ext/corpus/status |
| POST | `/api/ext/find-source` | POST /api/ext/find-source |
| GET | `/api/ext/usage` | GET /api/ext/usage |
| POST | `/api/ext/usage` | POST /api/ext/usage |
| GET | `/api/mcp` | GET /api/mcp |
| POST | `/chapter-sources` | Citation API with real page numbers |
| POST | `/cytado-hook` | HTTP notifications (webhooks). |
| POST | `/find-source` | Citation API with real page numbers |
| GET | `/usage` | Citation API with real page numbers |

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **OpenAPI** — https://artifacts.apis.io/cytado-com/openapi/_ae-authored/cytado-com-openapi-generated.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/cytado-com/json-schema/cytado-com-post-find-source-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/cytado-com/json-schema/cytado-com-post-find-source-request-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/cytado-com/json-schema/cytado-com-get-api-ext-corpus-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/cytado-com/json-schema/cytado-com-get-api-ext-corpus-status-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/cytado-com/json-schema/cytado-com-post-cytado-hook-request-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/cytado-com/json-schema/cytado-com-post-api-ext-usage-request-schema.json

## Other Cytado APIs (1)

- [Citation API](https://apis.io/apis/cytado-com/citation-api/)

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/cytado-com/cytado-com-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/cytado-com/.