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# What is the integration API

The chat API of Oswald is the API used for sending and receiving messages to and from the Oswald Platform. The API can be reached at the following URI:

`https://api.oswald.ai/api/v1`

Exploring this API is possible by surfing to`https://api.oswald.ai/explorer/`.

The chat API utilizes the HTTP requestformat defined in the REST standard. The user/client can only receive a response from the API after sending a request first.

The full base URI is `https://api.oswald.ai/api/v1`.