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GET /

API Status

Check if the Flashback API is running and accessible.

This endpoint is useful for:

• Health monitoring

• Load balancer health checks

• Verifying API connectivity

TypeScript Client Library

// Using the Flashback TypeScript client
import { FlashbackClient } from '@flashback/client';

const client = new FlashbackClient({ accessToken: 'your-access-token' });

// Check API root status
try {
  const result = await client.health.root();
  console.log('API status:', result);
} catch (error) {
  console.error('API status check failed:', error);
}

Code Samples

Shell

# You can also use wget
curl -X GET https://backend.flashback.tech/ \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {access-token}'

HTTP

GET https://backend.flashback.tech/ HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3000
Accept: application/json

JavaScript

const headers = {
  'Accept':'application/json',
  'Authorization':'Bearer {access-token}'
};

fetch('https://backend.flashback.tech/',
{
  method: 'GET',
  headers: headers
})
.then(function(res) {
    return res.json();
}).then(function(body) {
    console.log(body);
});

Ruby

require 'rest-client'
require 'json'

headers = {
  'Accept' => 'application/json',
  'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access-token}'
}

result = RestClient.get 'https://backend.flashback.tech/',
  params: {
  }, headers: headers

p JSON.parse(result)

Python

import requests
headers = {
  'Accept': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer {access-token}'
}

r = requests.get('https://backend.flashback.tech/', headers = headers)

print(r.json())

PHP

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$headers = array(
    'Accept' => 'application/json',
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access-token}',
);

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

// Define array of request body.
$request_body = array();

try {
    $response = $client->request('GET','https://backend.flashback.tech/', array(
        'headers' => $headers,
        'json' => $request_body,
       )
    );
    print_r($response->getBody()->getContents());
 }
 catch (\GuzzleHttp\Exception\BadResponseException $e) {
    // handle exception or api errors.
    print_r($e->getMessage());
 }

 // ...

Java

URL obj = new URL("https://backend.flashback.tech/");
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
    new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
    response.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
System.out.println(response.toString());

Go

package main

import (
       "bytes"
       "net/http"
)

func main() {

    headers := map[string][]string{
        "Accept": []string{"application/json"},
        "Authorization": []string{"Bearer {access-token}"},
    }

    data := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{jsonReq})
    req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://backend.flashback.tech/", data)
    req.Header = headers

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    // ...
}

Example responses

200 Response

{
  "message": "Flashback (0.0.49) API is running"
}

Responses

Status	Meaning	Description	Schema
200	OK	API is running	Inline

Response Schema

Status Code 200

Name	Type	Required	Restrictions	Description
» message	string	false	none	none