ShipEngine API

Name: ShipEngine API
Brand: ShipEngine API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecE CommerceStorefrontapiKey96 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Programmatically list account settings, create an account image. Covers 96 operations with apiKey authentication.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the ShipEngine API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the ShipEngine API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with ShipEngine API.

List Account Settings

Create an Account Image

Get Account Image By ID

Update Account Image By ID

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use ShipEngine API for, with concrete tasks.

★ E-Commerce Operations

Use the ShipEngine API to perform e commerce operations programmatically. The API provides 96 endpoints covering core functionality including list account settings, create an account image, list account images.

Call GET /v1/account/settings to list account settings

Automated account Management

Automate account operations by combining multiple ShipEngine API endpoints. Agents can create an account image and then list account images in a single workflow.

Call POST /v1/account/settings/images to create an account image, then verify the result

AI Agent Integration via Jentic

AI agents discover and call ShipEngine API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle apiKey tokens manually.

Search Jentic for 'list account settings', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

Key Endpoints

96 endpoints — shipengine's easy-to-use rest api lets you manage all of your shipping needs without worrying about the complexities of different carrier apis and protocols.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1/account/settings

List Account Settings

POST

/v1/account/settings/images

Create an Account Image

GET

/v1/account/settings/images

List Account Images

GET

/v1/account/settings/images/{label_image_id}

Get Account Image By ID

PUT

/v1/account/settings/images/{label_image_id}

Update Account Image By ID

DELETE

/v1/account/settings/images/{label_image_id}

Delete Account Image By Id

PUT

/v1/addresses/recognize

Parse an address

POST

/v1/addresses/validate

Validate An Address

GET

/v1/account/settings

List Account Settings

POST

/v1/account/settings/images

Create an Account Image

GET

/v1/account/settings/images

List Account Images

GET

/v1/account/settings/images/{label_image_id}

Get Account Image By ID

PUT

/v1/account/settings/images/{label_image_id}

Update Account Image By ID

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your ShipEngine API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'validate an address' or 'list account settings', and Jentic returns the matching ShipEngine operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

Time to first call

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Shopify

Alternative e commerce API

Choose Shopify when you need a different approach to e commerce operations

Alternative

Stripe

Alternative e commerce API

Choose Stripe when you need a different approach to e commerce operations

FAQs

Specific to using ShipEngine API through Jentic.

What authentication does the ShipEngine API use?

The ShipEngine API uses an API key passed in the `API-Key` header. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.

Can I list account settings with the ShipEngine API?

Yes. Use the GET /v1/account/settings endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.

What are the rate limits for the ShipEngine API?

Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.

How do I list account settings through Jentic?

Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'list account settings'. Jentic returns the matching ShipEngine API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.

How many endpoints does the ShipEngine API have?

The ShipEngine API exposes 96 endpoints covering account, addresses, batches operations.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the ShipEngine API?

Yes. Jentic One is self-hosted by you, so your own rules decide which ShipEngine operations and credentials your agent can use. You pick the exact endpoints it may call, so a destructive action like DELETE /v1/account/settings/images/{label_image_id} stays out unless you explicitly add it. Because ShipEngine puts the label image id in the URL path, a rule can also pin the agent to a single image resource rather than every account image.