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Access cheatsheets and quick reference guides for hundreds of dev tools, languages, and frameworks via the quickref.me API. List, search, and fetch full content.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/db82383b-d1e0-48e4-8697-9b32643219a9/list_cheatsheets' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Get a list of all available technology cheatsheets and quick reference materials from quickref.me. Returns metadata including title, slug, intro, categories, and tags for each cheatsheet.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"count": "integer total number of cheatsheets available",
"cheatsheets": "array of cheatsheet metadata objects with title, slug, intro, categories, and tags"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"count": 154,
"cheatsheets": [
{
"slug": "bash",
"tags": [
"script",
"shell",
"sh"
],
"intro": "This is a quick reference cheat sheet to getting started with linux bash shell scripting.",
"title": "Bash",
"categories": [
"Programming"
]
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the quickref.me API
The quickref.me API gives programmatic access to cheatsheet content from quickref.me across 3 endpoints. Use list_cheatsheets to retrieve metadata for every available technology reference, search_cheatsheets to filter by keyword against titles, slugs, and tags, or get_cheatsheet to pull full structured content — sections, subsections, code blocks, tables, and usage notes — for a specific tool or language.
What the API Covers
The quickref.me API exposes cheatsheet data for developer tools, programming languages, and frameworks hosted on quickref.me. The list_cheatsheets endpoint returns the full catalog with no inputs required. Each item in the cheatsheets array includes a title, slug, intro, categories, and tags field, plus a total count of available references.
Searching and Filtering
The search_cheatsheets endpoint accepts a query string and matches it against the cheatsheet title, slug, and tags. Results come back with the same metadata shape as the listing endpoint — title, slug, intro, categories, and tags — along with a count of matched items. Queries like python, docker, or bash are typical inputs.
Detailed Cheatsheet Content
The get_cheatsheet endpoint takes a slug (e.g. git, vim, bash) and returns the full cheatsheet broken into a sections array. Each section has a title and a subsections array whose content blocks can be of type code, text, list, or table. This structured format makes it straightforward to render, index, or transform individual reference topics without parsing free-form markup. The slug and intro fields are also returned at the top level alongside the title.
- Building a developer reference assistant that surfaces relevant cheatsheet sections by keyword via
search_cheatsheets - Indexing the full quickref.me catalog with
list_cheatsheetsto populate an internal knowledge base or search index - Rendering in-editor cheatsheet panels by fetching
sectionsandsubsectionscontent blocks fromget_cheatsheet - Tagging and categorizing documentation resources using the
categoriesandtagsfields from listing results - Powering CLI tooling that retrieves syntax examples and command references for a given tool slug on demand
- Building educational platforms that present structured code and table content blocks for specific technologies
- Comparing coverage of topics across multiple technologies by batch-fetching slugs returned from
list_cheatsheets
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does quickref.me have an official developer API?+
What content types appear inside a cheatsheet's sections?+
get_cheatsheet endpoint returns a sections array where each section contains a subsections array. Each subsection can hold content blocks of type code, text, list, or table. This lets you distinguish runnable examples from prose, bullet lists, and structured reference tables within a single cheatsheet.Can I retrieve cheatsheets filtered by category?+
list_cheatsheets and search_cheatsheets endpoints return categories as a field on each cheatsheet, but there is no dedicated category-filter parameter. You can filter client-side using the returned categories values. You can also fork this API on Parse and revise it to add a category-filter endpoint.Does the API return revision history or last-updated timestamps for cheatsheets?+
title, slug, intro, categories, tags, and structured sections content, but no versioning or freshness metadata. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add the missing timestamp endpoint if that data becomes available on the source.How do I get the correct slug to pass to `get_cheatsheet`?+
list_cheatsheets to retrieve the full catalog and inspect the slug field on any entry, or use search_cheatsheets with a relevant keyword to narrow results. The returned slug values (e.g. bash, docker, vim) are the exact identifiers accepted by the slug parameter of get_cheatsheet.