# API

PDH.stat provides machine-to-machine accessibility to Pacific data through its RESTful API. A freely available SDMX-based web service is exposed on the Web at the following endpoint:

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Sample API calls corresponding to particular data views can be produced from the Data Explorer, for more information on this see [dedicated section from the Data Explorer documentation](https://docs.pacificdata.org/dotstat/de).

For more information on SDMX web services see the following references:

* [SDMX official website](https://sdmx.org/)
* [SDMX information model](https://sdmx.org/wp-content/uploads/SDMX_2-1_SECTION_2_InformationModel_2020-07.pdf)
* [SDMX REST web services guidelines](https://github.com/sdmx-twg/sdmx-rest/) and its [SDMX 2.1 RESTful web services cheat sheet](https://github.com/sdmx-twg/sdmx-rest/blob/master/doc/rest_cheat_sheet.pdf?raw=true)


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