Evernote API Overview
Evernote's API provides secure access for your trusted local or web-based applications using the same network communications that are used by Evernote's own client software.
It only takes two steps to get started with the Evernote API:
Documentation
Start with our API Overview, which will give you an understanding of the our API architecture.
- API Overview (HTML)
- API Overview (PDF)
The Thrift API Reference provides complete reference documentation for our data model and the API functions used to manipulate it.
In addition to the full web service API documented in the Thrift API Reference, we expose some functionality through pure a HTTP API. This is not intended to be an alternative to the Thrift API.
If you are building a synchronizing client that keeps a local copy of a user's entire Evernote account, you must follow our synchronization specification to ensure that you transfer data as efficiently as possible and do not overwrite user data in the event of conflicting changes.
Guidelines and Terms
Evernote's service API is provided under the terms of the Evernote API License Agreement. Please review the Evernote Branding and Trademark Usage Guidelines for information about using an Evernote trademark, including the word "Evernote" and the Evernote Elephant logo, in your application or service.

