Detect what is behind a URL

Runs every plugin’s detector against a pasted URL and returns the candidates it recognized, most confident first. The URL to register may not be the URL that was pasted.

POST /v1/connectors/detect

Authorization

Authorization Bearer token · header required

Authorization: Bearer <token> with an API key (sfa_ prefix), an OAuth access token, a session token, or a Space machine credential (sfm_ prefix).

or

Authorization OAuth2 access token · header required

OAuth 2.0 with Spacefast scopes. People use the authorization code flow; machines use client credentials.

Scopes: connectors:write

Query parameters

team string

min length 1 · max length 255

Request body

required application/json

url string required

Any URL a service published. Every plugin's detector gets a look at it.

Responses

200 Response for status 200

$schema string

Canonical JSON Schema URL for this response body. The server also sends it in the Link: rel="describedby" response header.

data object[] required

Array of object

• kind string required

Source kind this candidate would register as.

Allowed: openapi, graphql, mcp

• confidence string required

How sure the detector is. Ranked highest first.

Allowed: high, medium, low

• endpoint string required

The URL to register, which may not be the URL that was pasted.

• title string required

Name the source calls itself.

• slug string required

Suggested slug, already checked against the team's connectors.

• presetId string | any required

Catalog row this resolved to, when the paste matched a known service.

Error Structure

Any of:

• string

• any

• default Problem details (RFC 9457). Any 4xx/5xx response is one application/problem+json document.

$schema string

Canonical JSON Schema URL for this response body. The server also sends it in the Link: rel="describedby" response header.

• type string required

URL of the documentation page for this error. Derived from code.

• title string required

Human-readable name of the error type. Derived from code.

• status integer required

HTTP status of the response, repeated in the body.

min -9007199254740991 · max 9007199254740991

• detail string required

What went wrong in this request.

• code string required

Stable snake_case error code. Match on this, not on detail.

• pointer string

RFC 6901 JSON Pointer to the request field or batch entry that failed, for example /files/37/path. Present on validation failures.

• details object

Machine-readable context keyed by the error code.

• suggestions string[]

Recovery steps safe to show to a person.

• next string[]

Commands or API requests to run next, usable as written.

• requestId string required

ID of this request, from the X-Request-Id header or generated. Quote it when contacting support.

Try it

Server

Base URL https://api.spacefast.com

Custom base URL Overrides the selected server when set.

Authorization

Bearer token Remember on this device

Include my values in samples

Parameters

• team query

Body

application/json

url string * Any URL a service published. Every plugin's detector gets a look at it.

Send

Request Examples

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.spacefast.com/v1/connectors/detect" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "url": "http://example.com"
}'

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("https://api.spacefast.com/v1/connectors/detect", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: "{\n  \"url\": \"http://example.com\"\n}"
});

Python

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.spacefast.com/v1/connectors/detect",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    data="{\n  \"url\": \"http://example.com\"\n}",
)

Response

200 default

{
  "$schema": "http://example.com",
  "data": [
    {
      "kind": "openapi",
      "confidence": "high",
      "endpoint": "http://example.com",
      "title": "string",
      "slug": "string",
      "presetId": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Error Response Example

{
  "$schema": "http://example.com",
  "type": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "status": -9007199254740991,
  "detail": "string",
  "code": "string",
  "pointer": "string",
  "details": {
    "property1": null,
    "property2": null
  },
  "suggestions": [
    "string"
  ],
  "next": [
    "string"
  ],
  "requestId": "string"
}