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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.

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

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:

Jupyter, updated 2025-09-08: https://help.labarchives.com/hc/en-us/articles/11780569021972-Jupyter-Integration
REDCap, updated 2025-09-05: https://help.labarchives.com/hc/en-us/articles/11780613160980-REDCap-Integration
Protocols.io, updated 2025-09-22: https://help.labarchives.com/hc/en-us/articles/11780572389524-Protocols-io-Integration

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`

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/labapi/
Source: https://github.com/nimh-dsst/labapi
Documentation: https://nimh-dsst.github.io/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:

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.