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-# API Documentation
+# Routes and Methods
GoToSocial uses [go-swagger](https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger) to generate a V2 [OpenAPI specification](https://swagger.io/specification/v2/) document from code annotations.
-The resulting API documentation is rendered below, for quick reference.
+The resulting API documentation is rendered below. Please note that the doc is intended for reference only. You will not be able to use the built-in Authorize functionality in the below widget to actually connect to an instance or make API calls. Instead, you should use something like curl, Postman, or similar.
-If you'd like to do more with the spec, you can also view the [swagger.yaml](./swagger.yaml) directly, and then paste it into something like the [Swagger Editor](https://editor.swagger.io/) in order to autogenerate GoToSocial API clients in different languages, convert the doc to JSON or OpenAPI v3 specification, etc. See [here](https://swagger.io/tools/open-source/getting-started/) for more.
+Most of the GoToSocial API endpoints require a user-level OAuth token. For a guide on how to authenticate with the API using an OAuth token, see the [authentication doc](./authentication.md).
+
+!!! tip
+ If you'd like to do more with the spec, you can also view the [swagger.yaml](./swagger.yaml) directly, and then paste it into something like the [Swagger Editor](https://editor.swagger.io/). That way you can try autogenerating GoToSocial API clients in different languages (not supported, but fun), or convert the doc to JSON or OpenAPI v3 specification, etc. See [here](https://swagger.io/tools/open-source/getting-started/) for more.
+
+!!! info "Gotcha: uploading files"
+ When using an API endpoint that involves submitting a form to upload files (eg., the media attachments endpoints, or the emoji upload endpoint, etc), please note that `filename` is a required on the form field, due to the dependency that GoToSocial uses to parse forms, and some quirks in Go.
+
+ See the following issues for more context:
+
+ - [#1958](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1958)
+ - [#1944](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1944)
+ - [#2641](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/2641)
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