# Matplotlib Core API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/matplotlib/matplotlib-core-api/  
**Provider:** Matplotlib — https://apis.io/providers/matplotlib/  
**Documentation:** https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/index.html

Matplotlib Core API is published by [Matplotlib](https://apis.io/providers/matplotlib/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Plotting, Python, and Visualization. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and a getting-started guide.

Python API for creating publication-quality figures and plots, including the pyplot state-based interface and the object-oriented Axes API.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://matplotlib.org/stable/contents.html
- **Reference** — https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/index.html
- **GettingStarted** — https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/getting_started/index.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/matplotlib/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Plotting, Python, Visualization

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