API overview

The Ordertracker API is organized around REST. Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts form-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.

Authentication

The Ordertracker API uses keys to authenticate requests. You can view and manage your API key in the Ordertracker dashboard, your API key carry many privileges, so be sure to keep it secure! Do not share your secret API key in publicly accessible areas such as client-side code, and so forth.

Authentication to the API is performed via X-Ordertracker-Key HTTP header.

curl -G https://api.ordertracker.com/v4/carrier \
  -H "X-Ordertracker-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"