---
title: "Sort, reverse, deduplicate and clean up lines of text."
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/sort-lines"
tags: ["Text Tools"]
---

# Sort, reverse, deduplicate and clean up lines of text.

`POST /api/v1/sort-lines`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://programmes.net`
- URL: `https://programmes.net/api/v1/sort-lines`
- Auth: none declared

Sort & Dedupe Lines. Operations: `process` — Sort, deduplicate and clean lines of text.

## Request body

- SortLinesProcess: Sort, deduplicate and clean lines of text.
  - `operation` 'process', required
  - `input` string: the text, one item per line
  - `options` object
    - `order` 'asc' | 'desc' | 'reverse': Sort order.
    - `removeDuplicates` boolean: Remove duplicate lines.
    - `removeEmpty` boolean: Remove empty lines.
    - `caseSensitive` boolean: Case-sensitive sort/dedupe.
    - `numeric` boolean: Sort numerically.
    - `trim` boolean: Trim whitespace from each line.

## Response `200`

The operation ran.

- object
  - `ok` unknown, required
  - `tool` 'sort-lines', required
  - `operation` 'process', required
  - `result` unknown, required

## Other responses

- `400`: The request is not valid (https://programmes.net/api#invalid-request); The tool has no such operation (https://programmes.net/api#unknown-operation)
- `404`: No such tool (https://programmes.net/api#unknown-tool)
- `413`: The request or its input is too large (https://programmes.net/api#content-too-large)
- `415`: The body must be JSON (https://programmes.net/api#unsupported-media-type)
- `422`: An option is missing, of the wrong type or out of range (https://programmes.net/api#invalid-options); This call needs more CPU than one API call may use (https://programmes.net/api#refused); The operation could not process the input (https://programmes.net/api#tool-error)
- `429`: Too many requests (https://programmes.net/api#rate-limited)
- `500`: Internal error (https://programmes.net/api#internal-error)

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/programmes/apis/programmes-net-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/programmes/apis/programmes-net-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/programmes/apis/programmes-net-api/revisions/aa939784a2e6?raw)