# PySpark Core API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/pyspark/pyspark-core-api/  
**Provider:** Apache PySpark — https://apis.io/providers/pyspark/  
**Documentation:** https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/reference/pyspark.html

PySpark Core API is one of 5 APIs that [Apache PySpark](https://apis.io/providers/pyspark/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include RDD and Spark Context. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

Core Spark functionality including RDDs, SparkContext, and basic operations.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/reference/pyspark.html
- **APIReference** — https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/reference/api/pyspark.SparkContext.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pyspark/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Apache PySpark APIs (4)

- [PySpark SQL](https://apis.io/apis/pyspark/pyspark-sql/)
- [PySpark Streaming](https://apis.io/apis/pyspark/pyspark-streaming/)
- [PySpark MLlib](https://apis.io/apis/pyspark/pyspark-mllib/)
- [PySpark ML (DataFrame-based)](https://apis.io/apis/pyspark/pyspark-ml/)

## Tags

RDD, Spark Context

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