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date: 2025-03-13
title: Public API for Annotation Queues
description: Access and manage your annotation queues programmatically with our new Public API endpoints.
author: Marc
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[Annotation queues](/docs/evaluation/evaluation-methods/annotation) help to label and review LLM Traces in Langfuse and are often a baseline for any LLM evaluation. This change adds a new public API to manage annotation queues programmatically. Thereby, you can now scale and automate your annotation workflows.

Check out our [API docs](/docs/api) for detailed information on how to use these new endpoints.

Endpoints:

- `GET /api/public/annotation-queues` - Get all annotation queues
- `GET /api/public/annotation-queues/{queueId}` - Get an annotation queue by ID
- `GET /api/public/annotation-queues/{queueId}/items` - Get items for a specific annotation queue
- `POST /api/public/annotation-queues/{queueId}/items` - Add an item to an annotation queue
- `GET /api/public/annotation-queues/{queueId}/items/{itemId}` - Get a specific item from an annotation queue
- `PATCH /api/public/annotation-queues/{queueId}/items/{itemId}` - Update an annotation queue item
- `DELETE /api/public/annotation-queues/{queueId}/items/{itemId}` - Remove an item from an annotation queue

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