Outline

Outline Documents API

`Documents` are what everything else revolves around. A document represents a single page of information and always returns the latest version of the content. Documents are stored in [Markdown](https://spec.commonmark.org/) formatting.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 30

POST /documents.info Retrieve a document #
POST /documents.insights Retrieve insights for a document #
POST /documents.import Import a file as a document #
POST /documents.export Export a document #
POST /documents.list List all documents #
POST /documents.documents Retrieve a document's child structure #
POST /documents.drafts List all draft documents #
POST /documents.viewed List all recently viewed documents #
POST /documents.answerQuestion Query documents with natural language #
POST /documents.search_titles Search document titles #
POST /documents.search Search all documents #
POST /documents.create Create a document #
POST /documents.update Update a document #
POST /documents.templatize Create a template from a document #
POST /documents.unpublish Unpublish a document #
POST /documents.move Move a document #
POST /documents.archive Archive a document #
POST /documents.restore Restore a document #
POST /documents.delete Delete a document #
POST /documents.users List document users #
POST /documents.memberships List document memberships #
POST /documents.add_user Add a document user #
POST /documents.remove_user Remove a document user #
POST /documents.archived List all archived documents #
POST /documents.deleted List all deleted documents #
POST /documents.duplicate Duplicate a document #
POST /documents.add_group Add a group to a document #
POST /documents.remove_group Remove a group from a document #
POST /documents.group_memberships List document group memberships #
POST /documents.empty_trash Empty trash #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.getoutline.com/developers

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/outline/refs/heads/main/openapi/outline-documents-api-openapi.yml

SDKs

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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/outline/openapi

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OpenAPI Specification

outline-documents-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Outline Documents API
  description: '# Introduction


    The Outline API is structured in an RPC style.'
  version: 0.1.0
  contact:
    email: hello@getoutline.com
  license:
    name: BSD-3-Clause
    url: https://github.com/outline/openapi/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://app.getoutline.com/api
  description: Cloud hosted
- url: https://{domain}/api
  description: Self-hosted on your own server
  variables:
    domain:
      default: example.com
security:
- BearerAuth: []
- OAuth2:
  - read
  - write
tags:


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# Full source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/outline/refs/heads/main/openapi/outline-documents-api-openapi.yml