# Pixelfed Instance API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-instance-api/  
**Provider:** Pixelfed — https://apis.io/providers/pixelfed/  
**Base URL:** https://{instance}/api  
**Documentation:** https://docs.pixelfed.org/

Pixelfed Instance API is one of 17 APIs that [Pixelfed](https://apis.io/providers/pixelfed/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Instance. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a GitHub repository, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.

Instance and federation metadata

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixelfed/refs/heads/main/openapi/pixelfed-instance-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.pixelfed.org/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
- **Authentication** — https://docs.pixelfed.org/technical/api/
- **Plans** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixelfed/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
- **RateLimits** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixelfed/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- **FinOps** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixelfed/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml

## Other Pixelfed APIs (12)

- [Pixelfed Accounts API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-accounts-api/)
- [Pixelfed Blocks and Mutes API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-blocks-and-mutes-api/)
- [Pixelfed Bookmarks API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-bookmarks-api/)
- [Pixelfed Collections API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-collections-api/)
- [Pixelfed Direct Messages API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-direct-messages-api/)
- [Pixelfed Discovery API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-discovery-api/)
- [Pixelfed Favourites API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-favourites-api/)
- [Pixelfed Follow Requests API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-follow-requests-api/)
- [Pixelfed Lists API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-lists-api/)
- [Pixelfed Media API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-media-api/)
- [Pixelfed Notifications API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-notifications-api/)
- [Pixelfed Push Notifications API](https://apis.io/apis/pixelfed/pixelfed-push-notifications-api/)

## Tags

Instance

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