Status Codes

Responses from the API use HTTP response codes are used to indicate general classes of success and error.

Status code range	Description
2xx	Successfully processed the request.
4xx	Incorrect or incomplete parameters
5xx

• Codes in the 2xx range indicate success.

• Codes in the 4xx range indicate incorrect or incomplete parameters (e.g. a required parameter was omitted, or an operation failed with a 3rd party, etc.).

• Codes in the 5xx range indicate an error with GitBook's servers.

GitBook also outputs an error message and an error code formatted in JSON:

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{
    "error": {
        "code": 404,
        "message": "Page not found in this space"
    }
}