OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
title: Geckoboard Datasets API
description: 'REST API for pushing custom data into Geckoboard for use on dashboards.
Supports creating datasets with typed schemas, appending records,
and full data replacement. Authentication uses HTTP Basic auth with a
Geckoboard API key as the username and an empty password.
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version: 1.0.0
contact:
name: Geckoboard Developer Documentation
url: https://developer.geckoboard.com/
servers:
- url: https://api.geckoboard.com
description: Production
security:
- basicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Datasets
description: Manage dataset schemas and records
paths:
/datasets/{id}:
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/DatasetId'
put:
tags:
- Datasets
summary: Find or create a dataset
description: Creates a dataset with the supplied schema, or returns the existing dataset if it already exists.
operationId: findOrCreateDataset
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DatasetSchema'
responses:
'200':
description: Dataset created or found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DatasetSchema'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'422':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
delete:
tags:
- Datasets
summary: Delete a dataset
operationId: deleteDataset
responses:
'200':
description: Dataset deleted
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
/datasets/{id}/data:
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/DatasetId'
post:
tags:
- Datasets
summary: Append data to a dataset
description: Appends up to 500 records to the dataset, merging with existing rows.
operationId: appendData
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DataPayload'
responses:
'200':
description: Data appended
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'422':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
put:
tags:
- Datasets
summary: Replace all dataset data
description: Deletes all existing data in the dataset and writes the new records.
operationId: replaceData
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DataPayload'
responses:
'200':
description: Data replaced
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'422':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
components:
responses:
ValidationError:
description: Request validation failed
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
NotFound:
description: Resource not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
Unauthorized:
description: Missing or invalid API key
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
schemas:
DataPayload:
type: object
required:
- data
properties:
data:
type: array
maxItems: 500
items:
type: object
additionalProperties: true
Error:
type: object
properties:
error:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
DatasetSchema:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
fields:
type: object
additionalProperties:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Field'
unique_by:
type: array
items:
type: string
Field:
type: object
required:
- type
- name
properties:
type:
type: string
enum:
- string
- number
- date
- datetime
- money
- percentage
- duration
name:
type: string
optional:
type: boolean
default: false
currency_code:
type: string
description: ISO 4217 currency code, required for money fields
parameters:
DatasetId:
name: id
in: path
required: true
description: Identifier of the dataset
schema:
type: string
securitySchemes:
basicAuth:
type: http
scheme: basic
description: HTTP Basic with the Geckoboard API key as the username and empty password.