# HttpFS REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/hadoop/httpfs-rest-api/  
**Provider:** Apache Hadoop — https://apis.io/providers/hadoop/  
**Base URL:** http://httpfs-host:port/webhdfs/v1/  
**Documentation:** https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/index.html

HttpFS REST API is one of 6 APIs that [Apache Hadoop](https://apis.io/providers/hadoop/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Filesystem, Gateway, and REST API. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

HTTP REST API gateway supporting both webhdfs and httpfs operations for HDFS access.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/index.html

## Other Apache Hadoop APIs (5)

- [MapReduce History Server REST API](https://apis.io/apis/hadoop/mapreduce-history-server-api/)
- [Apache Hadoop WebHDFS API](https://apis.io/apis/hadoop/hadoop-webhdfs-api/)
- [Apache Hadoop YARN Applications API](https://apis.io/apis/hadoop/hadoop-yarn-applications-api/)
- [Apache Hadoop YARN Cluster API](https://apis.io/apis/hadoop/hadoop-yarn-cluster-api/)
- [Apache Hadoop YARN Nodes API](https://apis.io/apis/hadoop/hadoop-yarn-nodes-api/)

## Tags

Filesystem, Gateway, REST API

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