Multi-key sort API

Stably sorts an array of objects by one or more key paths, each ascending or descending, with type-aware comparison. Answers 'How do I sort records by multiple fields?', 'How do I do a stable multi-key sort?'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data-transform/sort-by

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

data-transformsortordermulti-keyarraystablewrangle

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data-transform/sort-by

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "data": [
    {
      "a": 2,
      "b": 1
    },
    {
      "a": 1,
      "b": 9
    },
    {
      "a": 1,
      "b": 2
    }
  ],
  "keys": [
    "a",
    {
      "key": "b",
      "desc": true
    }
  ]
}

Example response

{
  "result": [
    {
      "a": 1,
      "b": 9
    },
    {
      "a": 1,
      "b": 2
    },
    {
      "a": 2,
      "b": 1
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "data",
    "keys"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "data": {
      "type": "array",
      "examples": [
        [
          {
            "a": 2,
            "b": 1
          },
          {
            "a": 1,
            "b": 9
          },
          {
            "a": 1,
            "b": 2
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "keys": {
      "type": "array",
      "examples": [
        [
          "a",
          {
            "key": "b",
            "desc": true
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}