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KeymanWeb Cloud Services API - version 4.0

API usage

Version 4.0 of the API is a RESTful web service available through HTTPS that returns only UTF-8 JSON format data. URIs in the data will reflect the protocol that is used to query the web service.

Endpoints

The two endpoints below can be used interchangeably. api.keyman.com is the modern endpoint; future services will be available there.

Interfaces

Call Description
GET https://api.keyman-staging.com/cloud/4.0/languages Returns a CloudServices object with a Languages object, that contains a list of all language and keyboard combinations available on the server. This call will return full details of every language, keyboard and font combination. It is typically around 150KB.
GET https://api.keyman-staging.com/cloud/4.0/languages/fra Returns a CloudServices object with a Language object for a language identified by the language code fra.
GET https://api.keyman-staging.com/cloud/4.0/languages/fra/european Returns a CloudServices object with a Language object for a language identified by the language code fra and its associated keyboard identified by id european.
GET https://api.keyman-staging.com/cloud/4.0/keyboards Returns a CloudServices object with a Keyboards object that contains a list of all keyboards on the server. The response is typically around 75KB.
GET https://api.keyman-staging.com/cloud/4.0/keyboards/european Returns a CloudServices object with a Keyboard object for the keyboard identified by id european, and a list of all languages associated with that keyboard.
GET https://api.keyman-staging.com/cloud/4.0/keyboards/european/fra Returns a CloudServices object with a Keyboard object for the keyboard identified by id european, and the language associated with fra.

Parameters

The parameters below can be provided as query parameters in the URL.

device
optional
Can currently be any of the following: "windows", "macosx", "iphone", "ipad", "androidphone", "androidtablet", "mobile", "desktop", "tablet", "any". The server will filter keyboards according to the device type. If absent, then "any" is used.
dateformat
optional
Can be "seconds" or "standard". If absent, then "standard" is used. Reflects the format of any date values returned.
keyboardVersion
optional
Specifies the version of the keyboard to retrieve. Must be 'current', 'all' or a valid version string, such as '1.1'.
languageidtype
optional
Can be "iso6393" or "bcp47". If absent, then "iso6393" is used. Reflects the type of any language identifiers returned.
version
optional
The version of Keyman Engine, e.g. "10.0". If absent, uses "2.0". The server will filter keyboards that are available for that version of Keyman Engine. (See KeymanWeb Versioning for details on valid version numbers.)

Returned JSON

The CloudServices object

The CloudServices object is the base object returned from any API call. Note that the members keyboards, languages, keyboard, and language are all mutually exclusive.

options
Object
An Options object corresponding to the user-selected query options
languages
optional
A Languages object.
keyboard
optional
Keyboard object or Array of Keyboard objects.
language
optional
Language object.

The Options object

The Options object returns the original query parameters plus contextual information. Contains the following members:

context
string
The context of the call. Will be one of the following four values: 'keyboards', 'languages', 'keyboard', 'language'
dateFormat
string
Either 'seconds' or 'standard', corresponding to the requested date format if specified.
device
string
Target device. Will be 'all' if not specified.
keyboardid
string optional
id of the keyboard queried, if provided.
languageid
string optional
id of the language queried, if provided.
keyboardBaseUri
string
fully qualified base path of any keyboard filenames presented in the data.
fontBaseUri
string
fully qualified base path of any font filenames presented in the data.

Example Call

GET https://api.keyman-staging.com/cloud/4.0/keyboards/european/fra

Returns:

{
  "options": {
    "context":"keyboard",
    "dateFormat":"standard",
    "device":"any",
    "keyboardBaseUri":"https:\/\/s.keyman.com\/keyboard\/",
    "fontBaseUri":"https:\/\/s.keyman.com\/font\/deploy\/",
    "keyboardid":"european",
    "languageid":"fra"
    "keyboardVersion":"current"
  },
  "keyboard":{
    "id":"european",
    "name":"EuroLatin Keyboard",
    "filename":"european/1.1/european-1.1.js",
    "version":"1.1",
    "desktopKeyboardID":348,
    "lastModified":"2015-03-25T19:49:46+11:00",
    "devices":{
      "phone":0,
      "tablet":0,
      "desktop":2
    }
    "languages":[
      {
        "id":"fra",
        "name":"French",
        "region":4,
        "font":{
          "family":"LatinWeb",
          "source":"DejaVuSans.ttf"
        }
        "example":{
          "keys":"`A bient^ot",
          "text":"\u00c0 bient\u00f4t",
          "note":"\"Goodbye\""
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

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