API

Integrate sustainability information into your own systems

By using the BASTA API, you can integrate product and sustainability data directly into your own tools, databases and services. This ensures access to up-to-date information at all times and removes the need for manual searches.

How does the API work?

Instead of searching our database manually, you can connect your own tools and databases to the BASTA database through APIs (application programming interfaces). This gives you direct access to accurate and up-to-date sustainability information from the BASTA system.

In the connected tool or database, you can choose which information to display and provide links back to the public article pages in the BASTA system, making it easy for users to access additional product information.

For technical documentation, including available methods and parameters, please refer to our API documentation swagger.

We are using the API

User examples

Want to discover how the BASTA API can be used? Organizations ranging from building material merchants and contractors to SaaS providers have integrated the API into their systems and services.

Learn more about the different integration approaches and how BASTA information is used to support sustainable product selection and decision-making.

How is the API used? 

How do I connect to the BASTA open API?

  1. Contact bastaonline@ivl.se and let us know that you would like to retrieve data through the API
  2. Read and sign the agreement governing the use of the BASTA API, and provide your contact details together with information about how you intend to use the API.
  3. BASTA will provide authentication credentials once the agreement has been signed.

Would you like to learn more about the APIs? Contact us!

Other ways to retrieve data from BASTA's database

For organizations that are unable to integrate with the API but still wish to match articles in their own systems or databases against the BASTA database, we provide a monthly Excel file containing updated information on registered articles.

If your organization is interested in using this service, please contact us and we will be happy to help you get started.