POST
/
v1
/
table
/
{name}
/
describe
curl --request POST \
  --url https://{db}.{region}.api.lancedb.com/v1/table/{name}/describe/ \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>'
{
  "table": "<string>",
  "version": 123,
  "schema": {
    "fields": [
      {
        "name": "id",
        "type": {
          "name": "int64"
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "name",
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "vector",
        "type": {
          "type": "float32",
          "length": 128
        }
      }
    ],
    "metadata": {
      "key": "value"
    }
  },
  "stats": {
    "num_deleted_rows": 123,
    "num_fragments": 123
  }
}

Authorizations

x-api-key
string
header
required

Path Parameters

name
string
required

name of the table

Response

200
application/json
Table information
table
string

Name of the table

version
integer

The latest version of the table

schema
object

JSON representation of an Arrow schema.

Example:
{
  "fields": [
    { "name": "id", "type": { "name": "int64" } },
    {
      "name": "name",
      "type": { "type": "string" }
    },
    {
      "name": "vector",
      "type": { "type": "float32", "length": 128 }
    }
  ],
  "metadata": { "key": "value" }
}
stats
object