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