# JSON:API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/rest/json-api/  
**Provider:** REST — https://apis.io/providers/rest/  
**Documentation:** https://jsonapi.org

JSON:API is one of 4 APIs that [REST](https://apis.io/providers/rest/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include API Design, JSON, REST, and Specification. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

JSON:API is a specification for how a client should request that resources be fetched or modified, and how a server should respond to those requests, built on top of REST principles with conventions for relationships, pagination, filtering, and sparse fieldsets.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://jsonapi.org/format/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/json-api/json-api

## Other REST APIs (3)

- [REST Architectural Style](https://apis.io/apis/rest/rest-architectural-style/)
- [OpenAPI Specification](https://apis.io/apis/rest/openapi-specification/)
- [HTTP Semantics](https://apis.io/apis/rest/http-semantics/)

## Tags

API Design, JSON, REST, Specification

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/rest/json-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/rest/.