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Sources and Verification Notes

Research date: 2026-07-23.

Official LabArchives pages were located with parallel-cli search and read with parallel-cli extract. GitHub repository metadata was cross-checked with GitHub's API. No search output or credential material is stored in this skill.

Official API sources

ELN overview and regional API hosts

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/NS4yfDI3LzQvVHJlZU5vZGUvMTF8MTMuMg

  • Page revision: 2025-11-03
  • Describes the ELN API as REST-like.
  • Lists API hosts for US/rest of world, Australia/New Zealand, UK, Europe outside the UK, and Canada.
  • Requires HTTPS.
  • States that many responses are XML and child-element order is not fixed.

Requirements and best practices

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/MTM2LjV8MjcvMTA1L1RyZWVOb2RlLzM2MzY3OTM2NjF8MzQ2LjU=

  • Page revision: 2024-06-28
  • Credentials are issued for a specific organization/vendor and purpose.
  • Large batches must be serialized or staggered by at least one second.
  • HTTP 4xx responses must not be automatically retried.
  • Eligible retries must wait at least one second, back off, and stop at a bounded count/duration.
  • expires should represent current epoch milliseconds, with server-clock adjustment, not a future expiry.

Call authentication

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/Ny44fDI3LzYvVHJlZU5vZGUvMTE1MzU5MTAyNXwxOS44

  • Page revision: 2023-05-10
  • Defines Base64(HMAC-SHA-512) over the concatenation of Access Key ID, method input, and expires, using the Access Password as the HMAC key.
  • Documents akid, expires, and URI-encoded sig query parameters.
  • The published dummy test vector is reproduced by scripts/entry_operations.py self-test.

API user login and UID

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/ODEuOXwyNy82My05My9UcmVlTm9kZS8yMjYyMTU0MTg3fDIwNy44OTk5OTk5OTk5OTk5OA==

  • Page revision: 2023-03-03
  • Documents the signed /api_user_login redirect, returned auth_code and email, and redemption through users::user_access_info.
  • Defines the user-generated temporary password token alternative.
  • States that UIDs are bound to the Access Key ID and persist until revoked.

ELN API class tree

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/MS4zfDI3LzEvVHJlZU5vZGUvODYxMDc1MjB8My4z

  • Current tree includes entries, search tools, utilities, users, tree tools, notifications, notebooks, and site-license tools.
  • Method pages, not names inferred from other clients, are the source of truth.

ELN entry response elements

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/NjguOXwyNy81My9UcmVlTm9kZS8xODUxMDkwNDk2fDE3NC45

  • Documents common <entry> XML fields and optional entry/comment data.
  • Distinguishes attachment metadata from retrieval of attachment bytes.

LA container file

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/Ni41fDI3LzUvVHJlZU5vZGUvNDQ3MDk3MTI0fDE2LjU=

  • Original page revision shown as 2014-11-10; the public page also contained an example-file revision dated 2026-03-02 at research time.
  • Defines an LA container as a ZIP with lamanifest.xml, an application file, preview file, and UTF-8 index file.
  • This format is not the same thing as a notebook-backup response.

Inventory authentication

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/MTQ0LjN8MjcvMTExL1RyZWVOb2RlLzM5NjYzNjc4MjJ8MzY2LjI5OTk5OTk5OTk5OTk1

  • Page revision: 2025-11-24
  • Inventory uses the shared LabArchives authentication flow.
  • Requires a new signature for each exact relative route.
  • Lists X-LabArchives-UId, X-LabArchives-AKId, X-LabArchives-LabId, X-LabArchives-Signature, and X-LabArchives-Expires.
  • Route parameters are included in the signature input; query parameters are excluded.

Inventory API v1 item creation

https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/share/LabArchives%20API/MTg4LjV8MjcvMTQ1L1RyZWVOb2RlLzEyOTcxODY5ODF8NDc4LjU=

  • Page revision: 2026-04-02
  • The public navigation labels the Inventory surface APIs (v1).
  • Explicitly documents POST /public/v1/inventory and its JSON schema.
  • The navigation also exposes read/update item routes and sections for item types, orders, storage locations, and vendors.

Official product and help sources

Regional browser login URLs

https://help.labarchives.com/hc/en-us/articles/11728160845332-Using-an-Institutional-Single-Sign-on-for-LabArchives-Access

  • Updated 2025-11-04
  • Lists separate login URLs for US/rest of world, Canada, Australia/New Zealand, UK, and Europe.

ELN API entitlement

https://help.labarchives.com/hc/en-us/articles/11723701830676-ELN-for-Research-Introduction-and-Subscription-Plans

  • Updated 2025-09-24
  • Lists developer API access under the Enterprise plan.

Inventory API entitlement

https://help.labarchives.com/hc/en-us/articles/11811035048212-Inventory-FAQs

  • Updated 2026-05-19
  • Limits API availability to Enterprise and Enterprise Plus licensees.
  • Requires Inventory account/API access and directs eligible users to support.

Integration index

https://help.labarchives.com/hc/en-us/sections/11732611360660-Integrations

Current index at research time included GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, Geneious, Proofig AI, Jupyter, REDCap, Protocols.io, Qeios, SciSpace, Vernier Logger Pro, and DataCite.

Selected dated articles:

Community Python client status

Community projects are not official LabArchives sources and are not installed by this skill.

mcmero/labarchives-py

https://github.com/mcmero/labarchives-py

GitHub metadata checked 2026-07-23:

  • personal/community repository, not LabArchives-owned,
  • 3 commits total,
  • last commit: 2022-08-10 (1b5b745baaf9),
  • no tags,
  • no GitHub releases,
  • no matching PyPI project found in the searches performed,
  • no official LabArchives endorsement found.

Conclusion: remove the old unpinned Git clone installation and do not recommend this wrapper by default.

nimh-dsst/labapi

Verified status on 2026-07-23:

  • community project under the NIMH DSST GitHub organization, not LabArchives-owned,
  • PyPI stable release 1.1.1, published 2026-07-06,
  • Python requirement >=3.10,
  • GitHub also had prerelease 1.2.0rc2, published 2026-07-23,
  • repository activity was current on the research date,
  • no official LabArchives endorsement was found.

The published documentation offers optional .env auto-loading, which this skill intentionally does not recommend for agent workflows. PyPI 1.1.1 and the current repository metadata also showed differing license labels during this review; inspect the exact selected artifact and license before adoption.

If an institution explicitly approves this client, pin the stable release rather than a branch or prerelease:

bash
uv add "labapi==1.1.1"

Review transitive dependencies and use only named process-environment variables. The standard-library bundled helpers remain the default here.

Claims not established by public official sources

The research did not establish:

  • a complete absolute regional base-URL table for Inventory API v1,
  • a numeric requests-per-minute or burst quota,
  • a generic LabArchives OAuth 2.0 authorization/token endpoint,
  • an official LabArchives Python SDK,
  • a blanket backward-compatibility guarantee for the legacy ELN API,
  • universal attachment extensions, file-size limits, or archive formats,
  • that every advertised product integration exposes a programmable API.

Obtain missing product-specific details from institution/vendor-provided API documentation or LabArchives support. Do not fill gaps from model memory or a community wrapper.