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What, why, how

Swisscom's APIs serve a broad audience of developers looking to integrate our services. We see our APIs as a new and high-potential way to enable products and customer experience also outside of our immediate domain.

Our APIs are all based on RESFTful services: https://api.swisscom.com/CLUSTER/VERSION/RESOURCEPATH where the cluster is a symbolic grouping of APIs and the resource path identifies the exact service call.

The version allows us to make changes to our APIs that are not backward compatible. (Deprecation of APIs is proactively announced by mail to all registered consumers.)

All of our APIs are explicitly authenticated and follow a strict set of design guidelines that should help you understand any of our APIs once you're comfortable with the first one.

Getting started

In order to get started, you must obtain credentials - either by contacting us directly or through the Swisscom Application Cloud where APIs are among the services that you can activate.

Calling an API

The simplest way to call an API, is by using curl.