Samsung SmartThings Capabilities API

Standard and custom capability definitions.

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smartthings-capabilities-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Samsung SmartThings Apps Capabilities API
  description: 'The SmartThings API is the RESTful core of the SmartThings smart-home IoT platform. It is used to control devices, read device status, manage Locations, Rooms, and Modes, build Automations with Rules and Scenes, inspect Capabilities, and build SmartApps (Apps and Installed Apps) that subscribe to events and run Schedules. Requests are authenticated with a Personal Access Token (PAT) for testing or an OAuth 2.0 access token for production integrations, passed as `Authorization: Bearer {token}`. This document is grounded in the official SmartThings Swagger definition (https://swagger.api.smartthings.com/public/st-api.yml); some less-common endpoints (Apps, History, Virtual Devices, individual Subscription operations) are modeled from the public docs and SDK where a full path was not directly confirmed.'
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: SmartThings Developers
    url: https://developer.smartthings.com
servers:
- url: https://api.smartthings.com/v1
  description: SmartThings Cloud API
security:
- bearerAuth: []
- oauth2: []
tags:
- name: Capabilities
  description: Standard and custom capability definitions.
paths:
  /capabilities:
    get:
      operationId: listCapabilities
      tags:
      - Capabilities
      summary: List Capabilities
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of standard capabilities.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  items:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Capability'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /capabilities/{capabilityId}/{capabilityVersion}:
    parameters:
    - name: capabilityId
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    - name: capabilityVersion
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: integer
    get:
      operationId: getCapability
      tags:
      - Capabilities
      summary: Get a Capability
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The capability definition, including attributes and commands.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Capability'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  schemas:
    Capability:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        version:
          type: integer
        status:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        attributes:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
        commands:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        requestId:
          type: string
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
            message:
              type: string
            details:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid access token.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'A Personal Access Token (PAT) from https://account.smartthings.com/tokens or an OAuth 2.0 access token, passed as `Authorization: Bearer {token}`.'
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow for production integrations.
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://api.smartthings.com/oauth/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://api.smartthings.com/oauth/token
          scopes:
            r:devices:*: Read devices
            x:devices:*: Control devices
            r:locations:*: Read locations
            w:locations:*: Manage locations
            r:scenes:*: Read scenes
            x:scenes:*: Execute scenes
            r:rules:*: Read rules
            w:rules:*: Manage rules