API & Developer Platform Updates


Stay up-to-date with our latest releases, built to help your team map, measure, and manage your sites more efficiently.

ℹ️ Note: The Propeller API is only available to our scale-tier customers. To enable access, please reach out to your Account Executive. For more on the Propeller API, view Using the Propeller API.

2026

October 2026

What’s new? 🚀

  • Create media and designs through the API: The upload endpoint now accepts media and design files, so you can create and upload this content directly through the API, not just retrieve it
    • POST /organizations/{organization_id}/uploads: Create an upload for a site in your organization
  • Survey files endpoints: Retrieve or delete individual files tied to a survey
    • GET .../surveys/{survey_id}/files/{file_id}: Retrieve a single file
    • DELETE .../surveys/{survey_id}/files/{file_id}: Delete a file
  • Drone endpoints: Retrieve your drone data directly through the API
    • GET /organizations/{organization_id}/drones: Retrieve a list of all your drones
    • GET /organizations/{organization_id}/drones/{drone_id}: Retrieve a drone by its ID
  • Users and teams endpoints: Retrieve your users and teams directly through the API
    • GET /organizations/{organization_id}/users: Retrieve a list of all users available to you
    • GET /organizations/{organization_id}/users/{user_id}: Retrieve a user by their ID
    • GET /organizations/{organization_id}/teams: Retrieve a list of all teams available to you
  • Road analysis endpoints: Pull road analysis data into your own workflows
    • GET .../workspaces/{workspace_id}/road_analyses: List road analyses for the workspace in the path
    • GET .../workspaces/{workspace_id}/road_analyses/{road_analysis_id}: Retrieve a single road analysis from the workspace in the path
  • Source photos endpoints: Access source photos tied to your surveys
    • GET .../surveys/{survey_id}/source_photos: Retrieve a list of all source photos available to you
    • GET .../surveys/{survey_id}/source_photos/{source_photo_id}: Retrieve a source photo by its ID

September 2026

What’s new? 🚀

  • Media categories endpoint: Retrieve the categories available for your media
    • GET .../sites/{site_id}/media_categories: Retrieve a list of the media categories on a site
    • GET .../sites/{site_id}/media_categories/{media_category_id}: Retrieve a media category by its ID
  • Media management endpoints: Get, update, delete, and move your media items directly through the API
    • GET .../workspaces/{workspace_id}/media: Retrieve a list of media assets in a workspace
    • POST .../workspaces/{workspace_id}/media/move: Move one or more media assets into a destination workspace
    • DELETE .../workspaces/{workspace_id}/media/{media_id}: Delete a media asset
    • GET .../workspaces/{workspace_id}/media/{media_id}: Retrieve a media item in a workspace using its ID
    • PATCH .../workspaces/{workspace_id}/media/{media_id}: Updates a media item's title.

Improvements + updates ⚡️

  • Survey file endpoints now return every survey type
    • GET .../sites/{site_id}/surveys: Now returns every survey type, including photogrammetry, LiDAR, point cloud, and preprocessed
    • GET .../sites/{site_id}/surveys/{survey_id}: Returns the survey
    • GET .../surveys/{survey_id}/files: Now returns every downloadable output for a survey, instead of the fixed ortho, DEM, and point cloud set for photogrammetry surveys

August 2026

What’s new? 🚀

  • Industries endpoint: Retrieve the list of available industries
    • GET /industries: Retrieve a list of all industries available to you
    • GET /industries/{industry_id}: Retrieve an industry by its ID
  • Site endpoints: Create and update your sites directly through the API
    • POST /organizations/{organization_id}/sites: Create a new site
    • PATCH /organizations/{organization_id}/sites/{site_id}: Partially update an existing site
  • Uploads endpoints: List, create, and complete uploads through the API, limited for now to the local calibration file type
    • GET /organizations/{organization_id}/uploads: Retrieve a list of uploads you created for a site in your organization
    • POST /organizations/{organization_id}/uploads: Create an upload for a site in your organization
    • GET /organizations/{organization_id}/uploads/{upload_id}: Retrieve a single upload you created in your organization
    • POST /organizations/{organization_id}/uploads/{upload_id}/complete: Mark an upload as successful or failed so Propeller can start or abandon processing, and return the updated upload object; call this once you've completed your upload with the presigned URL
  • Coordinate reference systems search endpoint: Search for coordinate reference systems directly through the API
    • POST /coordinate_reference_systems/search: Return projected coordinate reference systems matching your search

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