Joomla

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) built in PHP that includes a built-in REST API for managing core content types. The Web Services API provides JSON endpoints for articles, categories, contacts, banners, menus, modules, tags, fields, and user accounts. Authentication is handled via Bearer tokens with optional HMAC security, and every endpoint requires authentication unless explicitly marked public. Joomla is maintained entirely by volunteers and released under the GNU General Public License.

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aid: joomla
name: Joomla
description: >
  Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) built in PHP
  that includes a built-in REST API for managing core content types. The Web
  Services API provides JSON endpoints for articles, categories, contacts,
  banners, menus, modules, tags, fields, and user accounts. Authentication is
  handled via Bearer tokens with optional HMAC security, and every endpoint
  requires authentication unless explicitly marked public. Joomla is maintained
  entirely by volunteers and released under the GNU General Public License.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/joomla/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-13
modified: 2026-06-13
specificationVersion: "0.19"
tags:
  - CMS
  - Content Management
  - Open Source
  - PHP
  - REST API
  - Articles
  - Categories
  - Contacts
  - Menus
  - Modules
  - Users
apis:
  - aid: joomla:joomla-web-services-api
    name: Joomla Web Services API
    description: >
      The built-in Joomla Web Services API provides RESTful JSON endpoints for
      managing articles, categories, contacts, banners, menus, modules, tags,
      custom fields, and user accounts in a Joomla installation. Authentication
      uses Bearer tokens issued per-user. The API is available in Joomla 4.x
      and later and follows the {base_url}/api/index.php/v1/ URL pattern.
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Joomla_Core_APIs
    baseURL: https://{your-joomla-site}/api/index.php/v1
    tags:
      - Articles
      - Categories
      - Contacts
      - Banners
      - Menus
      - Modules
      - Users
      - Tags
      - Fields
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Joomla_Core_APIs
      - type: Specification
        url: https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_Api_Specification
    contact:
      - FN: Joomla Developer Community
        url: https://developer.joomla.org
        email: ''
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.joomla.org
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Joomla_Core_APIs
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/joomla
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joomla
  - type: Blog
    url: https://community.joomla.org/blogs.html
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.joomla.org/download.html
  - type: X
    url: https://twitter.com/joomla
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/joomla-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/joomla-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/joomla-finops.yml
  - type: BlogPosts
    url: blogs/blogs.json
  - type: JSONld
    url: json-ld/joomla.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]

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