UCLouvain

UCLouvain System API

The System API from UCLouvain — 33 operation(s) for system.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 40

GET /plugins List plugins #
GET /plugins/explorer.js JavaScript extensions to Orthanc Explorer #
GET /plugins/{id} Get plugin #
GET /statistics Get database statistics #
GET /system Get system information #
GET /tools/accepted-sop-classes Get accepted SOPClassUID #
GET /tools/accepted-transfer-syntaxes Get accepted transfer syntaxes #
PUT /tools/accepted-transfer-syntaxes Set accepted transfer syntaxes #
POST /tools/bulk-anonymize Anonymize a set of resources #
POST /tools/bulk-content Describe a set of resources #
POST /tools/bulk-delete Delete a set of resources #
POST /tools/bulk-modify Modify a set of resources #
POST /tools/count-resources Count local resources #
GET /tools/create-archive Create ZIP archive #
POST /tools/create-archive Create ZIP archive #
POST /tools/create-dicom Create one DICOM instance #
GET /tools/create-media Create DICOMDIR media #
POST /tools/create-media Create DICOMDIR media #
GET /tools/create-media-extended Create DICOMDIR media #
POST /tools/create-media-extended Create DICOMDIR media #
GET /tools/default-encoding Get default encoding #
PUT /tools/default-encoding Set default encoding #
GET /tools/dicom-conformance Get DICOM conformance #
POST /tools/dicom-echo Trigger C-ECHO SCU #
POST /tools/execute-script Execute Lua script #
POST /tools/find Look for local resources #
GET /tools/generate-uid Generate an identifier #
POST /tools/invalidate-tags Invalidate DICOM-as-JSON summaries #
GET /tools/labels Get all the used labels #
POST /tools/lookup Look for DICOM identifiers #
GET /tools/metrics Are metrics collected? #
PUT /tools/metrics Enable collection of metrics #
GET /tools/metrics-prometheus Get usage metrics #
GET /tools/now Get UTC time #
GET /tools/now-local Get local time #
POST /tools/reconstruct Reconstruct all the index #
POST /tools/reset Restart Orthanc #
POST /tools/shutdown Shutdown Orthanc #
GET /tools/unknown-sop-class-accepted Is unknown SOP class accepted? #
PUT /tools/unknown-sop-class-accepted Set unknown SOP class accepted #

Documentation

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APIReference
https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/api/index.html
📖
Documentation
https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/openapi/uclouvain-system-api-openapi.yml

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/openapi/_original/uclouvain-orthanc-api.json
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/examples/uclouvain-orthanc-system-example.json

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OpenAPI Specification

uclouvain-system-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: 'This is the full documentation of the REST API of Orthanc.

    This reference is automatically generated from the source code of Orthanc. A shorter cheat sheet is part of the Orthanc Book.

    An earlier, manually crafted version from August 2019, is still available, but is not up-to-date anymore (source).'
  title: Orthanc System API
  version: 1.13.0
servers:
- url: https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/demo/
tags:


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