aid: liquid-instruments
name: Liquid Instruments
description: 'Liquid Instruments builds Moku, a family of software-defined, FPGA-reconfigurable
  test-and-measurement hardware platforms (Moku:Go, Moku:Lab, Moku:Pro, Moku:Delta)
  that replace a bench of traditional instruments — oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer,
  waveform generator, lock-in amplifier, PID controller, phasemeter, laser lock box,
  logic analyzer, FIR/digital filter box, frequency response analyzer and more — with
  one reconfigurable device. Every Moku exposes a RESTful HTTP control API served by
  the device itself on the local network, wrapped by first-party Python, MATLAB and
  LabVIEW client libraries plus the MokuCLI command-line utility, and the company
  runs a hosted OpenID Connect identity service for Moku Cloud Compile and licensed
  feature access. The company was founded out of gravitational-wave detection research
  and is headquartered in San Diego, California with offices in Canberra and Melbourne,
  Australia.'
image: https://liquidinstruments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/liquid-instruments-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/liquid-instruments/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Test and Measurement
- Instrumentation
- Hardware
- Oscilloscope
- Spectrum Analyzer
- Data Acquisition
- FPGA
- Photonics
- Scientific Instruments
- Electronics
- Laboratory
apis:
- name: Moku REST API
  description: 'The Moku Scripting API is a RESTful HTTP interface served by the Moku
    device itself. A client first POSTs an empty JSON object to moku/claim_ownership
    to mint a Moku-Client-Key, then POSTs JSON parameter objects to
    /api/<instrument-or-group>/<action> for every subsequent operation. Responses are
    a uniform envelope of success, code, messages and data. Because the API server runs
    on the customer''s own hardware, there is no vendor-hosted base URL — the base URL
    is the device''s IP address on the local network (IPv4, or a bracketed IPv6
    link-local address over USB).'
  humanURL: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/
  baseURL: http://{device_ip}/api
  x-base-url-note: 'Device-local API. The published URL form is http://<ip>/api/<instrument>/<action>
    (source: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/getting-started/starting-curl.html).
    There is no vendor-hosted production host for this API; each Moku serves its own.'
  tags:
  - Test and Measurement
  - Instrumentation
  - Device Control
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/getting-started/starting-curl.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/liquid-instruments-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/liquid-instruments-error-codes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/liquid-instruments-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/liquid-instruments-data-model.yml
  - type: CodeExamples
    url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/moku-examples/
- name: Liquid Instruments Identity (OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect)
  description: 'The hosted identity service behind mokucli login, Moku Cloud Compile and
    licensed feature access. It publishes a full OpenID Connect discovery document at
    https://auth.liquidinstruments.com/.well-known/openid-configuration, advertising the
    authorization, token, userinfo, device-authorization, logout and JWKS endpoints, the
    authorization_code / client_credentials / refresh_token / password / implicit /
    device_code grant types, and the openid, offline_access, email, phone and profile
    scopes. mokucli signs in with the authorization code flow plus PKCE (S256) and then
    mints a short-lived Security Token Service credential that is cached locally.'
  humanURL: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/cli/login.html
  baseURL: https://auth.liquidinstruments.com
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - OpenID Connect
  - OAuth
  properties:
  - type: OpenIDConnect
    url: https://auth.liquidinstruments.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/cli/login.html
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/liquid-instruments-scopes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/liquid-instruments-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://liquidinstruments.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/reference/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/getting-started/
- type: Support
  url: https://liquidinstruments.com/support/contact/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://knowledge.liquidinstruments.com/
- type: Community
  url: https://forum.liquidinstruments.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://liquidinstruments.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://liquidinstruments.com/feed/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/liquidinstruments
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/liquidinstruments/moku-examples
- type: CodeExamples
  url: https://github.com/liquidinstruments/moku-examples
- type: Pricing
  url: https://store.liquidinstruments.com/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://liquidinstruments.com/my-account/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://liquidinstruments.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://liquidinstruments.com/privacy
- type: AcceptableUsePolicy
  url: https://liquidinstruments.com/terms/acceptable-use-policy
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/api/changelog/
- type: ChangeLog
  name: Moku API changelog (captured)
  url: changelog/liquid-instruments-changelog.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/liquid-instruments-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/liquid-instruments-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/liquid-instruments-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/liquid-instruments-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/liquid-instruments-scopes.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/liquid-instruments-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/liquid-instruments-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/liquid-instruments-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/liquid-instruments-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/liquid-instruments-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/liquid-instruments-data-model.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/liquid-instruments-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: enriched
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