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GET /v1/encode

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/snowflake-api/v1/encode" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/snowflake-api/v1/encode", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/snowflake-api/v1/encode");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/snowflake-api/v1/encode",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "lower-bound id (machine & sequence fields zeroed) — use for 'IDs created at/after this time' queries",
        "platform": "twitter",
        "snowflake": "1741610183685046272",
        "timestamp_ms": 1704067200000,
        "timestamp_iso": "2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T23:40:44.130Z",
        "request_id": "799c1c43-c9aa-439f-ae57-556ba1e92ca8"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Snowflake built",
    "success": true
}