Estuary Captures API

The Captures API from Estuary — 2 operation(s) for captures.

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estuary-captures-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Estuary Flow Control Plane Auth Captures API
  description: Representative OpenAPI description of the Estuary Flow control plane, a Supabase deployment (Postgres + PostgREST + GoTrue) that exposes the public-facing REST API for Estuary Flow. Clients authenticate with an Authorization Bearer access token, which is obtained by exchanging a long-lived refresh token through the generate_access_token RPC. Most resources are PostgREST tables and RPCs; standard PostgREST query conventions (select, filter operators like eq./gt., order, limit) apply to the table endpoints. Publishing changes to the running data plane is an asynchronous, draft-then-publish workflow. This document is a faithful representative model and is not the vendor's canonical machine-readable contract.
  termsOfService: https://estuary.dev/terms/
  contact:
    name: Estuary Support
    email: support@estuary.dev
  version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://api.estuary.dev
  description: Estuary Flow control plane (Supabase/PostgREST)
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Captures
paths:
  /live_specs:
    get:
      operationId: listLiveSpecs
      tags:
      - Captures
      summary: List live catalog specifications.
      description: Returns published, running catalog entities. Filter by catalog_name and spec_type (capture, materialization, collection, test) using PostgREST operators, e.g. spec_type=eq.capture.
      parameters:
      - name: catalog_name
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: PostgREST filter, e.g. like.acmeCo/%25
      - name: spec_type
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - capture
          - materialization
          - collection
          - test
        description: PostgREST filter, e.g. eq.capture
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Select'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An array of live specs.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/LiveSpec'
  /live_specs/{id}:
    get:
      operationId: getLiveSpec
      tags:
      - Captures
      summary: Get a single live specification.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/RowId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The live spec.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/LiveSpec'
components:
  parameters:
    Select:
      name: select
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
      description: PostgREST column/embed selection, e.g. select=id,catalog_name,spec_type
    RowId:
      name: id
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: PostgREST row id filter, e.g. eq.<flowid>
  schemas:
    LiveSpec:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        catalog_name:
          type: string
        spec_type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - capture
          - materialization
          - collection
          - test
        spec:
          type: object
          description: The full catalog spec document.
        connector_image_name:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        connector_image_tag:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        reads_from:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        writes_to:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        last_pub_id:
          type: string
        updated_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: 'Access token obtained from /rpc/generate_access_token by exchanging a refresh token. Sent as Authorization: Bearer <access_token>.'