The curl command can be used to authenticate to an API using a variety of authentication types such as Bearer, OAuth, Token, and of course Basic. To authenticate to the ZuluDesk API, first create an API token. This is done by logging into ZuluDesk, clicking Organization, then Settings, then API, an then clicking on the Add API Key button.
Once you have your API key, your header will look as follows:
GET /users HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 X-Server-Protocol-Version: 2 Authorization: Basic YOURTOKENHERExxx000111222== Content-Length: 0The curl command can do this would be as follows, simply converting these into separate values in the -H or header. The URL provided will do a GET against devices, displaying a list of devices in json:
curl -S -i -k -H "Content-Length: 0" "User-Agent: curl/7.24.0" X-Server-Protocol-Version: 2" "Authorization: Basic YOURAPITOKENxx000111222==" https://apiv6.zuludesk.com/devices/
Once you have the “serialNumber” you can programmatically perform a number of other tasks using a POST. Another example would be obtaining a list of apps, done using the /apps/ endpoint.
curl -S -i -k -H "Content-Length: 0" "User-Agent: curl/7.24.0" X-Server-Protocol-Version: 2" "Authorization: Basic YOURAPITOKENxx000111222" https://apiv6.zuludesk.com/apps/
You can also run a POST in the same fashion. In the following we’ll do that, sending a simple delete command to the group 505
curl -X DELETE -S -i -k -H "Content-Length: 0" "User-Agent: curl/7.24.0" X-Server-Protocol-Version: 2" "Authorization: Basic YOURAPITOKENxx000111222" https://apiv6.zuludesk.com/users/groups/:505
Overall, the ZuluDesk API is pretty easy to use and follow with just some basic curl commands.