General
An application programming interface (API) specifies how some software components should interact with each others. All API calls consist of a
"call name", called from now on
"method", and multiple parameters.
Here we describe how any application could access and use the data that is stored in pCloud - how to add pCloud's functionallity in your own application.
The following interfaces are provided to access the pCloud API:
Important notes
pCloud has two data centers. One in United States and one in Europe.
As a consequence API calls have to be made to the correct API host name depending were the user has been registered –
api.pcloud.com for United States and
eapi.pcloud.com for Europe.
If you use one of our SDKs this is handled automatically. Otherwise read
OAuth 2.0 authorize documentation.
Some parameters can be bundled with all methods and some are method specific. The parameters for all methods are called
global parameters. The specific parameters could be seen in the methods definitions.
Note: Authentication is not required for all methods.
All files and folders can be accessed by either full
path (discouraged) or a
fileid/
folderid.
When creating a file/folder using the
id approach you need to pass parent
folderid and
name.
For access/deletion you need just
folderid/fileid.
The root folder of every user always has folderid of 0.
Full paths always start with
/. Trailing slashes MUST NOT be present.
Implementations MUST accept 64 bit numbers for all ids and especially when dealing with quotas and file sizes (that are in bytes).
