Rubin Science Platform APIs

Integrate Rubin data into your analysis tools with APIs.

To access most APIs you need an access token with the scopes that the API requires. Each endpoint below lists its required scopes, with a link to create a token that has them. See our guide Creating user tokens to learn how to create tokens and use them in VO clients.

API endpoints

Data Preview 2

Data Preview 2 (Early) contains catalog products and coadded images from the Rubin Science Pipelines v30 processing of early observations obtained with LSSTCam from April 2025 to January 2026. Coadded images and catalogs cover ~3000 square degrees; single-epoch catalogs cover ~15,000 square degrees. Read the documentation

DataLink
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/datalink
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
Group Membership Service (GMS)
https://data.lsst.cloud/auth/gms
Simple Image Access (SIA v2)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/sia/dp2/query
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
Table Access Protocol (TAP)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/tap
Requires
- read:tap
Create a token with these scopes
SODA Image Cutouts
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/cutout
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Survey)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/hips/v2/dp2/list
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes

Prompt Products

Prompt products. Read the documentation

Group Membership Service (GMS)
https://data.lsst.cloud/auth/gms
Alert retrieval
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/alerts
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes

Data Preview 1

Data Preview 1 contains image and catalog products from the Rubin Science Pipelines v29 processing of observations obtained with the LSST Commissioning Camera of seven ~1 square degree fields, over seven weeks in late 2024. Read the documentation

DataLink
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/datalink
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
Group Membership Service (GMS)
https://data.lsst.cloud/auth/gms
Simple Image Access (SIA v2)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/sia/dp1/query
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
Table Access Protocol (TAP)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/tap
Requires
- read:tap
Create a token with these scopes
SODA Image Cutouts
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/cutout
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Survey)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/hips/v2/dp1/list
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes

Data Preview 0.3

Data Preview 0.3 contains the catalog products of a Solar System Science Collaboration simulation of the results of SSO analysis of the wide-fast-deep data from the LSST dataset. Read the documentation

Group Membership Service (GMS)
https://data.lsst.cloud/auth/gms
Table Access Protocol (TAP)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/ssotap
Requires
- read:tap
Create a token with these scopes

Data Preview 0.2

Data Preview 0.2 contains the image and catalog products of the Rubin Science Pipelines v23 processing of the DESC Data Challenge 2 simulation, which covered 300 square degrees of the wide-fast-deep LSST survey region over 5 years. Read the documentation

DataLink
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/datalink
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
Group Membership Service (GMS)
https://data.lsst.cloud/auth/gms
Simple Image Access (SIA v2)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/sia/dp02/query
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
Table Access Protocol (TAP)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/tap
Requires
- read:tap
Create a token with these scopes
SODA Image Cutouts
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/cutout
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes
HiPS (Hierarchical Progressive Survey)
https://data.lsst.cloud/api/hips/v2/dp02/list
Requires
- read:image
Create a token with these scopes

Documentation

Learn more about the APIs in the Rubin Science Platform API Aspect guide.