Breathe HR

Breathe is a UK-headquartered cloud HRIS designed for small and midsize businesses, covering employee records, holiday and sickness tracking, performance, documents, expenses, and rota scheduling. The Breathe API is a REST/JSON service that exposes employee, absence, account, and related HR resources for integration with payroll, identity, and analytics tools. Authentication uses a per-account API key passed in the X-API-KEY header against a production base URL of https://api.breathehr.com/v1 with a sandbox available at https://api.sandbox.breathehr.com/v1.

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aid: breathe-hr
name: Breathe HR
description: >-
  Breathe is a UK-headquartered cloud HRIS designed for small and
  midsize businesses, covering employee records, holiday and sickness
  tracking, performance, documents, expenses, and rota scheduling.
  The Breathe API is a REST/JSON service that exposes employee,
  absence, account, and related HR resources for integration with
  payroll, identity, and analytics tools. Authentication uses a
  per-account API key passed in the X-API-KEY header against a
  production base URL of https://api.breathehr.com/v1 with a sandbox
  available at https://api.sandbox.breathehr.com/v1.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - HR
  - HRIS
  - Human Resources
  - Employee Management
  - Absence Management
  - Holiday Tracking
  - SMB
  - UK
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/breathe-hr/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: breathe-hr:rest-api
    name: Breathe HR REST API
    description: >-
      JSON REST API for managing employees, absences, holidays, sick
      leaves, accounts, and related HR records inside Breathe. Calls
      require an X-API-KEY header containing the account-level token
      generated from the Breathe admin under Configure > API Settings.
    humanURL: https://developer.breathehr.com/
    baseURL: https://api.breathehr.com/v1
    tags:
      - HR
      - Employees
      - Absences
      - Holidays
      - Accounts
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.breathehr.com/
      - type: Getting Started
        url: https://developer.breathehr.com/documentation/getting_started
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://developer.breathehr.com/documentation/authenticating
      - type: Sandbox Base URL
        url: https://api.sandbox.breathehr.com/v1

common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.breathehr.com
  - type: Developer Portal
    url: https://developer.breathehr.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.breathehr.com/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.breathehr.com/en-gb/pricing
  - type: Sign Up
    url: https://www.breathehr.com/en-gb/free-trial
  - type: Knowledge Base
    url: https://intercom.help/breathehr/en
  - type: Support
    url: mailto:[email protected]
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/breathehr

maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]