The REST API

Paperless makes use of the Django REST Framework standard API interface because of its inherent awesomeness. Conveniently, the system is also self-documenting, so to learn more about the access points, schema, what’s accepted and what isn’t, you need only visit /api on your local Paperless installation.

Uploading

File uploads in an API are hard and so far as I’ve been able to tell, there’s no standard way of accepting them, so rather than crowbar file uploads into the REST API and endure that headache, I’ve left that process to a simple HTTP POST, documented on the consumption page.