Jellyfin API

Jellyfin API as documented publicly: 7 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-10-28); not the provider's own document.

Operations 7

GET /config/debian/{debianId}/prod.list Development | Jellyfin #
GET /gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key Development | Jellyfin #
GET /health GET /health #
GET /install-debuntu.sh GET /install-debuntu.sh #
GET /install-debuntu.sh.sha256sum Linux Debian / Ubuntu and derivatives #
GET /jellyfin_team.gpg.key GET /jellyfin_team.gpg.key #
GET /keys/microsoft.asc GET /keys/microsoft.asc #

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jellyfin-openapi-generated.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Jellyfin API
  version: '2026-10-28'
  description: 'GENERATED FROM DOCUMENTATION by API Evangelist on 2026-10-28: 7 operation(s) read from 4 public documentation page(s) (each operation
    names its page in x-source). This is not the provider''s published contract; Jellyfin has published no machine-readable contract that the
    pipeline could find. Engine: local.'
  x-evidence-tiers:
    code-example: 4
    documentation: 3
    pages-with-code: 4
    pages-read: 4
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-provenance: generated
  x-authored-by: API Evangelist
  x-generated: '2026-10-28'
  x-generator: generate-contract-from-docs.py
  x-engine: local
  x-sources:
  - https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/contributing/development
  - https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux
  - https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/advanced/manual
  - https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/networking/advanced/monitoring
servers:
- url: https://repo.jellyfin.org
paths:
  /config/debian/{debianId}/prod.list:
    get:
      operationId: get_config_debian_debianId_prod_list
      tags:
      - Config
      summary: Development | Jellyfin
      x-source: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/contributing/development
      parameters:
      - name: debianId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
      x-evidence:
        kind: documentation
  /gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key:
    get:
      operationId: get_gpgkey_nodesource_repo_gpg_key
      tags:
      - Gpgkey
      summary: Development | Jellyfin
      x-source: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/contributing/development
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
      x-evidence:
        kind: documentation
  /health:
    get:
      operationId: get_health
      tags:
      - Health
      summary: GET /health
      x-source: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/networking/advanced/monitoring
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
      x-evidence:
        kind: code-example
        language: curl
        snippet: "curl -i http://myserver:8096/health \n The -i option tells curl to also print the HTTP response code and headers. \n Prometheus\
          \ metrics ​ \n Jellyfin can make Prometheus metrics available at /metrics , but this is turned off by default to avoid unintentionally\
          \ leaking this information on the public internet. To enable it, you will need to edit /etc/jellyfin/system.xml and change this line\
          \ from false "
  /install-debuntu.sh:
    get:
      operationId: get_install_debuntu_sh
      tags:
      - Install Debuntu
      summary: GET /install-debuntu.sh
      x-source: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
      x-evidence:
        kind: code-example
        language: curl
        snippet: "curl -s https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh -O && \\ curl -s https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh.sha256sum\
          \ -O && \\ sha256sum -c install-debuntu.sh.sha256sum \n install-debuntu.sh: OK means the checksum is correct. \n You can optionally\
          \ inspect the script to see what it does before executing it: \n less install-debuntu.sh \n Then execute it with: \n sudo bash install-debuntu.sh\
          \ \n note T"
  /install-debuntu.sh.sha256sum:
    get:
      operationId: get_install_debuntu_sh_sha256sum
      tags:
      - Install Debuntu
      summary: Linux Debian / Ubuntu and derivatives
      x-source: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
      x-evidence:
        kind: documentation
  /jellyfin_team.gpg.key:
    get:
      operationId: get_jellyfin_team_gpg_key
      tags:
      - Jellyfin Team
      summary: GET /jellyfin_team.gpg.key
      x-source: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/advanced/manual
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
      x-evidence:
        kind: code-example
        language: curl
        snippet: "curl | sudo bash combo from the previous Automatic section. The risk with that command is that it relies on the security of\
          \ the webserver. extrepo avoids this by having the Jellyfin repo information including the GPG key in its extrepo-data . extrepo-data\
          \ is verified with GPG by the extrepo tool. So there is a chain of trust from Debian all the way to the Jellyfin repo information. \n\
          \ sudo apt inst"
  /keys/microsoft.asc:
    get:
      operationId: get_keys_microsoft_asc
      tags:
      - Keys
      summary: GET /keys/microsoft.asc
      x-source: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/contributing/development
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
      x-evidence:
        kind: code-example
        language: curl
        snippet: curl autoconf g++ make libpng-dev gifsicle automake libtool gcc musl-dev nasm ca-certificates curl -fsSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
          | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/microsoft-prod.gpg curl -LO https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/12/prod.list && mv prod.list
          /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list apt-get update && apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0 curl -fs
tags:
- name: Config
- name: Gpgkey
- name: Health
- name: Install Debuntu
- name: Jellyfin Team
- name: Keys