Login to the Admin API

Get an authentication token

In order to use the admin API you must have an authentication token. To get one you have two options.

The first option is to go to the user admin interface (/user/), locate your user and click on API key > Generate API key for this user?. The page will reload and a notice message will shows the authentication token.

The other option is to login via a curl call:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8881/auth-token -d '{
  "username": "demo",
  "password": "demo"
}'

In case of success, you retrieve the key in the authToken field of the JSON response.

Test an authentication token

The endpoint /api/test allows you to test an authentication token:

curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: EDcTszIHnaaDCpvpi+dJeakj6uOsDqtvSY6rqJyDR3baPpnFA+6u4UAaPcMuJIAfwTs='  http://localhost:8881/api/test