# JSON:API

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

JSON:API is one of 5 APIs that [RESTful](https://apis.io/providers/restful/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Hypermedia, JSON, and Standards. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

A specification for building APIs in JSON that standardizes resource representation, relationships, error handling, and metadata. Reduces over-fetching and under-fetching with sparse fieldsets and compound documents.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://jsonapi.org/format/
- **Website** — https://jsonapi.org/

## Other RESTful APIs (4)

- [Richardson Maturity Model](https://apis.io/apis/restful/richardson-maturity-model/)
- [HAL - Hypertext Application Language](https://apis.io/apis/restful/hal-specification/)
- [OpenAPI Specification](https://apis.io/apis/restful/openapi-specification/)
- [RFC 9110 - HTTP Semantics](https://apis.io/apis/restful/http-rfc-9110/)

## Tags

Hypermedia, JSON, Standards

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