generated: '2026-07-26'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developer.hometrack.com/ + https://developer.hometrack.com/apis +
  the six OpenAPI documents in openapi/ + live anonymous gateway probes.
summary: >-
  Hometrack publishes an interactive API console but no sandbox. The Azure API
  Management developer portal ships the stock try-it console on every operation
  ("The API Console allows you to directly interact with the API right here in
  the developer portal") and it is reachable anonymously — but every call it
  makes goes to the production gateway, and every call without a
  Hometrack-issued key returns HTTP 401. There is no test environment, no test
  key, no magic test values, no fixture data and no time simulation. The one
  operation anyone can execute is the availability check.
sandbox:
  exists: false
  test_environment: null
  test_credentials: false
  test_data: false
  test_clock: false
  fixtures: false
console:
  exists: true
  url: https://developer.hometrack.com/apis
  kind: azure-api-management-try-it
  anonymous_access: true
  executes_against: production (https://api.hometrack.com)
  verbatim: >-
    "The API Documentation describes how to use the APIs and includes code
    samples in multiple languages. The API Console allows you to directly
    interact with the API right here in the developer portal. To interact with
    any of our APIs you will need to have a valid API Key for that respective
    product. If you do not yet have an API Key, please contact us."
anonymously_executable:
- operation: status
  api: Hometrack Valuation API
  url: https://api.hometrack.com/valuation-api/v1/status
  observed: {status: 200, body: '(zero bytes)', date: '2026-07-26'}
  note: The only operation in Hometrack's published surface that answers an unauthenticated caller.
non_production_hosts_in_specs:
- host: https://api.hometrack.local
  note: >-
    Every harvested OpenAPI declares a second server, api.hometrack.local (and
    its per-API base paths). This is Hometrack's INTERNAL development hostname
    leaking into the published contract — it does not resolve publicly and is
    not a sandbox. Recorded so nobody mistakes it for one.
trial_surface:
  exists_in_api: true
  operations: [TrialApi_Trial, TrialApi_NewTrial]
  spec: openapi/hometrack-api-public-openapi.yml
  self_service: false
  note: >-
    The Public API carries POST /api/trial/{token} ("issues a trial licence") and
    GET /api/trial/{apikey}/{token}. These are trial LICENCES issued by
    Hometrack to an existing account holder, not a developer trial — calling
    them still requires a Hometrack-issued key, and no trial is offered on the
    portal.
onboarding:
  self_service: false
  contact: https://www.hometrack.com/uk/#contactus
cross_links:
  authentication: authentication/hometrack-authentication.yml
  conventions: conventions/hometrack-conventions.yml