Zeppelin REST API

Zeppelin provides several REST APIs for interaction and remote activation of zeppelin functionality.

All REST APIs are available starting with the following endpoint http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api

Note that zeppelin REST APIs receive or return JSON objects, it is recommended for you to install some JSON viewer such as JSONView

If you work with zeppelin and find a need for an additional REST API please file an issue or send us mail


Notebook REST API list

Notebooks REST API supports the following operations: List, Create, Get, Delete, Clone, Run as detailed in the following table

List notebooks
Description This GET method lists the available notebooks on your server. Notebook JSON contains the name and id of all notebooks.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK","message":"","body":[{"name":"Homepage","id":"2AV4WUEMK"},{"name":"Zeppelin Tutorial","id":"2A94M5J1Z"}]}


Create notebook
Description This POST method creates a new notebook using the given name or default name if none given. The body field of the returned JSON contains the new notebook id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook
Success code 201
Fail code 500
sample JSON input (without paragraphs) 
{ "name": "name of new notebook" }
sample JSON input (with initial paragraphs) 
{
  "name": "name of new notebook", 
  "paragraphs": [
    {
      "title": "paragraph title1",
      "text": "paragraph text1"
    },
    {
      "title": "paragraph title2",
      "text": "paragraph text2"
    }
  ]
}
sample JSON response 
{"status": "CREATED","message": "","body": "2AZPHY918"}


Get notebook
Description This GET method retrieves an existing notebook's information using the given id. The body field of the returned JSON contain information about paragraphs in the notebook.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/[notebookId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{
  "status": "OK",
  "message": "",
  "body": {
    "paragraphs": [
      {
        "text": "%sql \nselect age, count(1) value\nfrom bank \nwhere age < 30 \ngroup by age \norder by age",
        "config": {
          "colWidth": 4,
          "graph": {
            "mode": "multiBarChart",
            "height": 300,
            "optionOpen": false,
            "keys": [
              {
                "name": "age",
                "index": 0,
                "aggr": "sum"
              }
            ],
            "values": [
              {
                "name": "value",
                "index": 1,
                "aggr": "sum"
              }
            ],
            "groups": [],
            "scatter": {
              "xAxis": {
                "name": "age",
                "index": 0,
                "aggr": "sum"
              },
              "yAxis": {
                "name": "value",
                "index": 1,
                "aggr": "sum"
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "settings": {
          "params": {},
          "forms": {}
        },
        "jobName": "paragraph1423500782552-1439281894",
        "id": "20150210-015302_1492795503",
        "result": {
          "code": "SUCCESS",
          "type": "TABLE",
          "msg": "age\tvalue\n19\t4\n20\t3\n21\t7\n22\t9\n23\t20\n24\t24\n25\t44\n26\t77\n27\t94\n28\t103\n29\t97\n"
        },
        "dateCreated": "Feb 10, 2015 1:53:02 AM",
        "dateStarted": "Jul 3, 2015 1:43:17 PM",
        "dateFinished": "Jul 3, 2015 1:43:23 PM",
        "status": "FINISHED",
        "progressUpdateIntervalMs": 500
      }
    ],
    "name": "Zeppelin Tutorial",
    "id": "2A94M5J1Z",
    "angularObjects": {},
    "config": {
      "looknfeel": "default"
    },
    "info": {}
  }
}


Delete notebook
Description This DELETE method deletes a notebook by the given notebook id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/[notebookId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK","message":""}


Clone notebook
Description This POST method clones a notebook by the given id and create a new notebook using the given name or default name if none given. The body field of the returned JSON contains the new notebook id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/[notebookId]
Success code 201
Fail code 500
sample JSON input 
{"name": "name of new notebook"}
sample JSON response 
{"status": "CREATED","message": "","body": "2AZPHY918"}


Run notebook job
Description This POST method runs all paragraph in the given notebook id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/job/[notebookId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK"}


Stop notebook job
Description This DELETE method stops all paragraph in the given notebook id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/job/[notebookId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK"}



Get notebook job
Description This GET method gets all paragraph status by the given notebook id. The body field of the returned JSON contains of the array that compose of the paragraph id, paragraph status, paragraph finish date, paragraph started date.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/job/[notebookId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK","body":[{"id":"20151121-212654766735423","status":"FINISHED","finished":"Tue Nov 24 14:21:40 KST 2015","started":"Tue Nov 24 14:21:39 KST 2015"},{"progress":"1","id":"20151121-212657730976687","status":"RUNNING","finished":"Tue Nov 24 14:21:35 KST 2015","started":"Tue Nov 24 14:21:40 KST 2015"}]}


Run paragraph job
Description This POST method runs the paragraph by given notebook and paragraph id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/job/[notebookId]/[paragraphId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON input (optional, only needed when if you want to update dynamic form's value) 
{
  "name": "name of new notebook",
  "params": {
    "formLabel1": "value1",
    "formLabel2": "value2"
  }
}
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK"}


Stop paragraph job
Description This DELETE method stops the paragraph by given notebook and paragraph id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/job/[notebookId]/[paragraphId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK"}


Add cron job
Description This POST method adds cron job by the given notebook id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/cron/[notebookId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON input 
{"cron": "cron expression of notebook"}
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK"}


Remove cron job
Description This DELETE method removes cron job by the given notebook id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/cron/[notebookId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK"}


Get cron job
Description This GET method gets cron job expression of given notebook id. The body field of the returned JSON contains the cron expression.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/cron/[notebookId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK","body":"* * * * * ?"}

Full-text search through the paragraphs in all notebooks
Description GET request will return list of matching paragraphs
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/search?q=[query]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
Sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK", body: [{"id":"/paragraph/", "name":"Notebook Name", "snippet":"", "text":""}]}


Create paragraph
Description This POST method create a new paragraph using JSON payload. The body field of the returned JSON contain the new paragraph id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/[notebookId]/paragraph
Success code 201
Fail code 500
sample JSON input (add to the last) 
  { 
    "title": "Paragraph insert revised", 
    "text": "%spark\nprintln(\"Paragraph insert revised\")" 
  }
sample JSON input (add to specific index) 
  { 
    "title": "Paragraph insert revised", 
    "text": "%spark\nprintln(\"Paragraph insert revised\")",
    "index": 0
  }
sample JSON response 
{"status": "CREATED","message": "","body": "20151218-100330_1754029574"}


Get paragraph
Description This GET method retrieves an existing paragraph's information using the given id. The body field of the returned JSON contain information about paragraph.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/[notebookId]/paragraph/[paragraphId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{
  "status": "OK",
  "message": "",
  "body": {
    "title": "Paragraph2",
    "text": "%spark\n\nprintln(\"it's paragraph2\")",
    "dateUpdated": "Dec 18, 2015 7:33:54 AM",
    "config": {
      "colWidth": 12,
      "graph": {
        "mode": "table",
        "height": 300,
        "optionOpen": false,
        "keys": [],
        "values": [],
        "groups": [],
        "scatter": {}
      },
      "enabled": true,
      "title": true,
      "editorMode": "ace/mode/scala"
    },
    "settings": {
      "params": {},
      "forms": {}
    },
    "jobName": "paragraph1450391574392-1890856722",
    "id": "20151218-073254_1105602047",
    "result": {
      "code": "SUCCESS",
      "type": "TEXT",
      "msg": "it's paragraph2\n"
    },
    "dateCreated": "Dec 18, 2015 7:32:54 AM",
    "dateStarted": "Dec 18, 2015 7:33:55 AM",
    "dateFinished": "Dec 18, 2015 7:33:55 AM",
    "status": "FINISHED",
    "progressUpdateIntervalMs": 500
  }
}


Move paragraph
Description This POST method moves a paragraph to the specific index (order) from the notebook.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/[notebookId]/paragraph/[paragraphId]/move/[newIndex]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK","message":""}


Delete paragraph
Description This DELETE method deletes a paragraph by the given notebook and paragraph id.
URL http://[zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/[notebookId]/paragraph/[paragraphId]
Success code 200
Fail code 500
sample JSON response 
{"status":"OK","message":""}