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# ETAPI (REST API)
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ETAPI is Trilium's public/external REST API. It is available since Trilium v0.50.
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The documentation is in OpenAPI format, available [here](https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes/blob/master/src/etapi/etapi.openapi.yaml).
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## API clients
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As an alternative to calling the API directly, there are client libraries to simplify this
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*   [trilium-py](https://github.com/Nriver/trilium-py), you can use Python to communicate with Trilium.
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## Obtaining a token
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All operations with the REST API have to be authenticated using a token. You can get this token either from Options -> ETAPI or programmatically using the `/auth/login` REST call (see the [spec](https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes/blob/master/src/etapi/etapi.openapi.yaml)).
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## Authentication
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### Via the `Authorization` header
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```
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GET https://myserver.com/etapi/app-info
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Authorization: ETAPITOKEN
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```
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where `ETAPITOKEN` is the token obtained in the previous step.
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For compatibility with various tools, it's also possible to specify the value of the `Authorization` header in the format `Bearer ETAPITOKEN` (since 0.93.0).
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### Basic authentication
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Since v0.56 you can also use basic auth format:
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```
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GET https://myserver.com/etapi/app-info
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Authorization: Basic BATOKEN
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```
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*   Where `BATOKEN = BASE64(username + ':' + password)` - this is a standard Basic Auth serialization
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*   Where `username` is "etapi"
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*   And `password` is the generated ETAPI token described above.
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Basic Auth is meant to be used with tools which support only basic auth.
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## Interaction using Bash scripts
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It is possible to write simple Bash scripts to interact with Trilium. As an example, here's how to obtain the HTML content of a note:
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```
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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# Configuration
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TOKEN=z1vA4fkGxjOR_ZXLrZeqHEFOv65yV3882iFCRtNIK9k9iWrHliITNSLQ=
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SERVER=http://localhost:8080
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# Download a note by ID
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NOTE_ID="i6ra4ZshJhgN"
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curl "$SERVER/etapi/notes/$NOTE_ID/content" -H "Authorization: $TOKEN" 
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```
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Make sure to replace the values of:
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*   `TOKEN` with your ETAPI token.
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*   `SERVER` with the correct protocol, host name and port to your Trilium instance.
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*   `NOTE_ID` with an existing note ID to download. |