STANDS4 Web Services - Abbreviations API

The Abbrevations API from STANDS4 enables you to get classified abbreviations content for a given term. Use the Abbreviations REST API to customize your request with parameters such as category id, sort by, search type or a combination of any of them.

Request URL

http://www.abbreviations.com/services/v1/abbr.aspx

Request parameters

Parameter	Value	Default value	Description
tokenid	string (required)		Your valid developer token id
term	string (required)		The term you would like to search for
categoryid	integer	all	The category to search in
sortby	character	p (popularity)	The order in which the results will be returned. Use one of the following values: p for popularity, a for alphabetically or c for category
searchtype	character	e (exact match)	The search type to perform. Use one of the following values: e for exact match, b for begins with and r for reverse lookup

Sample request URL

http://www.abbreviations.com/services/v1/abbr.aspx?tokenid=tk324324324&term=asap

Response Elements

Field	Description
results	Contains all of the query responses
result	Contains each individual response
term	The term this result is referring to
definition	The definition that was found for this term
category	The category that this definition belongs to

Sample response

Rate Limit

The Abbreviations API service is currently limited to 1,000 queries for a developer token per day.