Response and Status Codes#

Every API request to LoanStreet returns standard responses and statuses.

LoanStreet Standard Response Payload#

LoanStreet adds a generic set of attributes to every API response. These are:

{
"status": "success",
"status_code": 200,
"detail": Request was successful",
"payload": [ { data1, data2 } ]
}

For every successful or unsuccessful API call, one of the following HTTP Status Code is returned in the response message:

Error Code	Description
200 Ok	Success response
201 Created	Successfully created
401 Unauthorized or bad token	The account is either unauthorized or has a malformed token
403 Insufficient Permissions	Your account does not have enough permissions
404 Resource Not Found	Could not find the requested resource. Check the URI for errors
429 Rate Limited	Rate limit exceeded
500	An error has occurred within the API
503	The server is unavailable

Example of a request failure:

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: text/javascript

{'error': 'Rate limit exceeded: 10 per 1 second'}