This is the official documentation for Raindrop.io API. A reference to the functionality our public API provides with detailed description of each API endpoint, parameters, and examples.

Please note that you must register your application and authenticate with OAuth when making requests. Before doing so, be sure to read our Terms & Guidelines to learn how the API may be used.

API endpoints accept arguments either as url-encoded values for non-POST requests or as json-encoded objects encoded in POST request body with Content-Type: application/json header.

Where possible, the API strives to use appropriate HTTP verbs for each action.

This API relies on standard HTTP response codes to indicate operation result. The table below is a simple reference about the most used status codes:

All 200 OK responses have the Content-type: application/json and contain a JSON-encoded representation of one or more objects.

Payload of POST requests has to be JSON-encoded and accompanied with Content-Type: application/json header.

All timestamps are returned in ISO 8601 format:

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ

For requests using OAuth, you can make up to 120 requests per minute per authenticated user.

The headers tell you everything you need to know about your current rate limit status:

Once you go over the rate limit you will receive an error response:

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Status: 429 Too Many Requests
X-RateLimit-Limit: 120
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1392321600 

The API supports Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for AJAX requests. You can read the CORS W3C recommendation, or this intro from the HTML 5 Security Guide.

Here’s a sample request sent from a browser hitting http://example.com:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://example.com
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Content-Type, Accept, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true