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A REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec. MCP-native agents. Production-ready webhooks from day one. Bring any HTTP client.

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Quickstart

From zero to your first structured extraction in under five minutes. Copy-paste ready code.

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API Reference

Full OpenAPI 3.1 spec for every endpoint. Request/response shapes, error codes, rate limits.

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Auth & Rate Limits

Bearer-token authentication, signed webhook payloads, per-tier rate limits, and idempotency keys for retry-safe writes.

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Code, by example

A complete extraction in one curl.

POST a file and a schema. Get back structured data with pixel-level citations — all in one call. No SDK to install.

Try in playground

bash · quickstart.sh

$ curl -X POST https://api.datadistill.co/v1/extract \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $DD_KEY" \
    -F "file=@invoice.pdf" \
    -F 'schema={"invoice_id":"string","total":"number","due_date":"date"}'

# 200 OK
{
  "data": {
    "invoice_id": "INV-2024-0042",
    "total": 12480,
    "due_date": "2024-02-15"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "total": { "page": 1, "bbox": [170,210,228,228] }
  }
}

API access

Use any HTTP client.

Native REST and webhooks. Bring whatever language you already ship in — generate types from the OpenAPI 3.1 spec and you're done.

Python

requests, httpx, or anything else. JSON in, JSON out.

requests.post(url, files=..., headers=H)

TypeScript / Node

Native fetch. Generate types from our OpenAPI spec.

await fetch(url, { method: "POST", body })

Go

net/http. Context-aware, zero external dependencies.

http.Post(url, "multipart/form-data", body)

cURL / shell

Test from any terminal. No project, no install.

curl -X POST $API/extract -F file=@...

MCP

Compose extraction into your agents.

DataDistill ships an MCP server you can connect to any MCP-compatible client. Your agents can extract, verify, and query structured data without leaving the conversation.

MCP-native stdio + HTTP transports Tool, resource, prompt primitives

python · mcp_server.py

# Drop DataDistill into any MCP agent
from datadistill.mcp import server

await server.serve(port=8080)

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