Acrobat.com's Document Service's APIs provide a standards-based way for developers to quickly add its features to new and existing applications. The service's REST-based interfaces help users store, manage, and share documents without the need for 3rd party applications such as email. Since the documents live online, users can access them anywhere and anytime there is an Internet connection. The REST protocol enables API access for any environment able to work with HTTP GET and POST requests.

What services are available?

The API provides many document service functions such as uploading documents, browsing a repository, sharing documents, and so on. These APIs allow you to quickly leverage document sharing capabilities in a mashup or as the basis for a new application. Supported features include the following:

• Upload and download documents
• Share documents as URLs
• Set permissions on documents
• Retrieve document thumbnails
• Retrieve Flash-based document previews
• Access your documents from anywhere
• Send documents without email attachments.
• View all the documents you have shared or received in one place.
• Post a link to your document on a wiki or blog.
• Embed a Flash® preview of your document on any website.
• Limit access to a document to a list of recipients.
• Create PDFs automatically during file upload.