# MAVLink Protocol

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/dronecode/mavlink/  
**Provider:** Dronecode Foundation — https://apis.io/providers/dronecode/  
**Documentation:** https://mavlink.io/en/

MAVLink Protocol is one of 4 APIs that [Dronecode Foundation](https://apis.io/providers/dronecode/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 5 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Drones, UAV, MAVLink, and Standards. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference, API documentation, a GitHub repository, and 5 JSON Schemas.

MAVLink is the message-level interoperability standard for drones, and the Dronecode Foundation publishes it. The contract is the dialect XML — 19 files including common.xml, standard.xml, minimal.xml and development.xml — from which every language binding is generated, plus five JSON Schemas defining how a component describes its own parameters, actuators and peripherals. The dialect XML carries a machine-readable deprecation element with `since` and `replaced_by`.

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **APIReference** — https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html
- **Documentation** — https://mavlink.io/en/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dronecode/refs/heads/main/json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-general.schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dronecode/refs/heads/main/json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-parameter.schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dronecode/refs/heads/main/json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-actuators.schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dronecode/refs/heads/main/json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-peripherals.schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dronecode/refs/heads/main/json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-translation.schema.json
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/mavlink/mavlink

## Other Dronecode Foundation APIs (3)

- [PX4 Autopilot](https://apis.io/apis/dronecode/dronecode-api/)
- [MAVSDK gRPC API](https://apis.io/apis/dronecode/mavsdk/)
- [dronecode.org WordPress REST API](https://apis.io/apis/dronecode/dronecode-org-rest/)

## Tags

Drones, UAV, MAVLink, Standards

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