Access via Converter API

Basics

Access to the Converter Api is being authenticated via HTTP-Basic authentication.

Authentication is needed for each and every access to the Api.

To set the correct HTTP-Headers for the HTTP-Basic authentication in curl, use the -- user name:password option.

Apply to Gerrit Imsieke of le-tex publishing servies GmbH for access keys.

API documentation

URL Verb Parameters Description Returns
https://transpect.le-tex.de/api/upload_file POST input_file: file,
type: string
add_params: string
Upload 'input_file' and start conversion of type 'type'.
Multipart POST request required.
With the optional 'add_params'-parameter additional parameters are passed on to the conversion-process. They must be declared as key-value pairs in the form: 'key=value' and separated by a semicolon ';'.
(JSON)
conversion_type: string
status: (uploaded|running|success|failure)
callback_uri: URL for retrieval of further status information for this conversion
https://transpect.le-tex.de/api/get_status GET input_file: string,
type: string
sends status information for specific conversion job (JSON)
status: (uploaded|running|success|failure)
message: verbose status information of conversion process
result_list_uri: (only for status 'success') uri for retrieval of output file list for this conversion
delete_uri: uri for deleting all data that belongs to this conversion
https://transpect.le-tex.de/api/get_result_list GET input_file: string,
type: string
sends list of output files for the specified conversion including information for postprocessing options (JSON)
files: hash
{
 <filename>: information about possible post-processing options and download URL
}
postproc_uri: example url for postprocessing. 'action' is wildcard for name of post-processing action. 'filename1 filename2' is wildcard for space-separated list of files to process
https://transpect.le-tex.de/api/download_result GET input_file: string,
type: string
file: string
Sends specified output-file of conversion as binary data (File Download)
https://transpect.le-tex.de/api/start_action GET input_file: string,
type: string
action_type: string
files: string (space-separated list of filenames)
Starts post-processing operation 'action_type' for files. (JSON)
status: verbose status information
https://transpect.le-tex.de/api/get_all_conversions GET type: string sends list of previously uploaded files including basic status information (JSON)
files: hash
{
 <filename>: hash
 {
  status: (uploaded|running|success|failure)
  last_changed: Timestamp
  callback_uri: uri for retrieval of extended status information
  result_list_uri: uri for retrieval of output file list for this conversion
  delete_uri: uri for deleting all data that belongs to this conversion
 }
}
https://transpect.le-tex.de/api/delete GET input_file: string,
type: string
Deletes data of specified conversion from server (JSON)
status: status of deletion process
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