CoderPad Interview API

CoderPad provides a simple API for programmatically creating and managing interview pads. You can use the API to integrate these pads with your internal interview scheduling platform or to get a text dump of an interview after the fact.

CoderPad provides a standard REST API that returns results in JSON format.

API Reference

Authentication

The API uses a simple HTTP Authorization header to authenticate you. If you visit your settings page, you’ll see your API key (this one is fake):

8af9a3412559d803707937250dc1569d

You can then make requests against the API endpoint like so:

curl -H 'Authorization: Token token="8af9a3412559d803707937250dc1569d"' \
  https://app.coderpad.io/api/pads

The authorization type for Interview is Bearer token:

Errors

The API will always return a top-level JSON object, along with a status code to indicate success or failure. When successful, the API will return an HTTP 200, as well as {status: "OK"}.

When calls are unsuccessful, they return an appropriate HTTP code, as well as something like

{
  "status": "ERROR",
  "message": "Invalid API key"
}

The following is a table of HTTP codes from errors that you can expect to see:

HTTP Code	Message	Description
200		Everything’s good!
400	Bad Request	You sent a malformed request, like a programming language we don’t yet support.
401	Invalid API key	Your API key wasn’t tied to a valid account.
403	Forbidden	You don’t have permission to access that resource.
404	Resource not found	We couldn’t find that resource for you… It probably doesn’t exist.
429	Over quota	You’ve exceeded the number of pads your plan allows in a month.

Languages

When a resource contains a language field, it’s value is one of a set list:

angular
bash
c
clojure
coffeescript
cpp
csharp
django
elixir
erlang
fsharp
gin
haskell
html
java
javascript
julia
kotlin
lua
markdown
node
objc
ocaml
perl
php
plaintext
postgresql
python
rails
react
ruby
rust
spring
svelte
swift
tcl
typescript
vb
vue