# Datadef API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/datadef-io/datadef-io-api/  
**Provider:** Datadef — https://apis.io/providers/datadef-io/  
**Documentation:** https://datadef.io/guides/en/what-is-data-lineage

Datadef API is one of 2 APIs that [Datadef](https://apis.io/providers/datadef-io/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

Datadef API as documented publicly: 5 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-11-05); not the provider's own document.

## Operations (5)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/api/dbt/manifest` | POST /api/dbt/manifest |
| POST | `/api/ingest` | POST /api/ingest |
| POST | `/api/lineage` | POST /api/lineage |
| GET | `/items` | GET /items?recursionLevel=Full&versionDescriptor.version=<sha>&versionDescriptor.versionType=commit |
| GET | `/refs` | GET /refs?filter=heads&api-version=7.1 |

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **OpenAPI** — https://artifacts.apis.io/datadef-io/openapi/_ae-authored/datadef-io-openapi-generated.yml

## Other Datadef APIs (1)

- [Datadef API](https://apis.io/apis/datadef-io/datadef-api/)

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