Solve backwards

What an amount of material covers

post/solve

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.craftquantities.com/v1
  • URL: https://api.craftquantities.com/v1/solve
  • Auth: none declared

Query parameters

detail'full' | 'summary'

full (the default): the whole answer. summary: the result lines, the citation line and the page only — fewer tokens to read.

summary: the result lines, the citation and the page only (fewer tokens); full, the default: the whole answer. A POST body may carry detail instead.

format'json' | 'md'

md: the engine's Markdown report as text/markdown (or send Accept: text/markdown); json, the default.

Request body

pagestring

A Solve Backwards page's slug, such as wall-paint, drywall-sheets, bricks, concrete-bags, ready-mix-concrete.

querystring

Or what the reader has, in words ("sheets of drywall", "bags of concrete"), when the slug is not known.

system'metric' | 'imperial'

The page's system; it sets the market's product (a 4 × 8 ft sheet in imperial). Left out: the unit's system, else metric.

settingsobject

Optional: another calculator input, with its unit (a slab's thickness "4 in", coats 3). The inputs the page grows cannot be set.

Response

The area and the size it covers, as the page works it.

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Changes

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