API Reference

Understand LightYear API rate limits and implement retry logic to handle rate limit responses.

Create, list, restart, and delete servers programmatically using the LightYear REST API.

Use official LightYear SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go, and PHP to interact with the API.

Navigate large result sets using cursor-based pagination and filter API responses.

Learn how to authenticate with the LightYear API using Bearer tokens and manage your API keys.

Complete reference for the Servers API — list, create, start, stop, and destroy servers.

Use the LightYear Terraform provider to provision and manage cloud resources as code.

Set up webhooks to receive real-time notifications when server events occur in your LightYear account.

Install the LightYear Python SDK and manage your infrastructure with Python.

Understand rate limits, implement retry logic, and optimise your API usage.

Track breaking changes, new features, and deprecations in the LightYear API.