API Reference
Build integrations and automate workflows with the FOSSA REST API.
1 min readUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Overview
The FOSSA REST API lets you query and manage your FOSSA data programmatically (projects, revisions, issues, vulnerabilities, release groups, and reports) so you can automate workflows from CI/CD or custom tooling.
All guides
index
creating-jira-tickets
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downloading-attribution-reports
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generating-reports
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initiating-a-binary-scan
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managing-issues
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managing-users-and-teams
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modifying-release-groups
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retrieving-latest-revision
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rotating-access-tokens
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What you can do with the API
- Automate tasks in your CI/CD pipeline.
- Query and manage your dependencies, projects, and revisions.
- Generate custom documents and reports.
- Build custom features and integrations on top of FOSSA data.
Start here
- Introduction: generate an API key and make your first request.
- Authentication: how to authenticate and the two token types.
- Errors: how to interpret API error responses.
Guides and reference
- Usage examples: practical recipes: managing issues, users, teams, reports, Jira tickets, and more.
- Endpoint Reference: the complete, interactive endpoint catalog.