InControl 2 API

The InControl 2 API opens up a world of possibilities for integrating our platform with your custom apps, web site, or other third party software.

InControl2 REST interface overview

Please review the following Peplink InControl API License Agreement And Terms Of Use

PEPLINK INCONTROL API LICENSE AGREEMENT

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TERMS OF USE


Overview of the Peplink InControl API Package and License Grant. The Peplink InControl API Package consists of a package or suite of different applications programmer's interfaces (hereinafter referred to for convenience as "the API" whether You access one or multiple interfaces) that will allow your application to directly interface with Peplink devices and/or Peplink web services. Subject to the terms and restrictions set forth in these Terms of Use, Peplink grants You a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license for the sole purpose of embedding the API and underlying content into your application so that your application can interface directly with Peplink devices and/or Peplink InControl web services. In order to use and access the API, You must register for an API account ("Account") with Peplink.

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Introduction

InControl 2 API uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol for authentication and authorization. It supports common OAuth 2.0 scenarios such as those for web server, installed, and client-side applications.

To begin, you will have to obtain an OAuth 2.0 client ID. If your app will access your InControl account only, you could get an ID by clicking on your username on the top of your InControl screen and scrolling down to the section "Client Application". If your app will allow any InControl users to sign-in and access their data, you can obtain an ID by sending an e-mail with your company name, company URL, app name, and redirect URI prefix to ic2api@peplink.com.

After you obtained a client ID, your client application should use it to request an authorization token from our authorization endpoints. Then it should request and extract an access token from the response from our token endpoint, and send the token to the InControl 2.0 API.

For more details about the OAuth 2.0, please refer to the RFC 6749.

You may also click the Get Access Token button below to obtain an access token and experiment the API below.

Unless specified, all timestamps returned from the API are also in the corresponding group's time zone.

  • Authorization Endpoint:
    • https://api.ic.peplink.com/api/oauth2/auth?client_id=[CLIENT_ID]&response_type=[code/token]&redirect_uri=[REDIRECT_URI]
  • Token Endpoint:
    • https://api.ic.peplink.com/api/oauth2/token
      • Required Parameters: client_id, client_secret, grant_type, redirect_uri, code
      • Method: POST
      • Form Encode: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • Access Token Location:
    • Authorization header with 'Bearer' prefix  [OR]
    • 'access_token' URL parameter
  • Token Response:
    • Content-Type: application/json
    • {"access_token":"your_access_token", "expires_in": 172799, "token_type":"Bearer", "refresh_token":"your_refresh_token"}
      • access_token: The access token string for API call.
      • expires_in: Duration of time in seconds the access token is granted for, default: 2 days.
      • token_type: Type of token
      • refresh_token: When access token expires, you may renew the access token through the OAuth "refresh_token" flow.
        By default, the refresh_token expires 30 days after the access token expires.
  • Usage Example:
    • Obtain Accessible organization list: https://api.ic.peplink.com/rest/o?access_token=[ACCESS_TOKEN]
    • Obtain group list: https://api.ic.peplink.com/rest/o/abcdef/g?access_token=[ACCESS_TOKEN]
  • Refresh token:
    • https://api.ic.peplink.com/api/oauth2/token
      • Method: POST
      • Encoding: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
      • Data: client_id=[your_client_id]&client_secret=[your_client_secret]&grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=[your_refresh_token]

  • API Request Rate Limit

  • The API request rate limit is 20 requests per second per organization for the public InControl. No limit for InControl Appliance.
    A "429" response code will be returned if the rate limit is reached.

  • API Error Responses

    • When the access token expired or invalid
      • Response code: 401
      • {"error": "invalid_accessor","error_description":"Error message here"}

    • When the access token reach rate limit
      • Response code: 429
      • {"error": "rate_limit_exceeded","error_description":"Error message here"}

    • When the request is unauthorized
      • Response code: 401
      • {"error": "unauthorized","error_description":"Error message here"}

    • When the organization_id is invalid
      • Response code: 404
      • {"error": "org_not_found","error_description":"Error message here"}

  • OpenAPI specification

    The OpenAPI specification can be found in HERE

  • Sample shell script implementation

  • A sample script can be downloaded from HERE

  • Obtain token using "client_credentials" flow example  [show]


    Obtain Access Token:


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  • POST /rest/ads/{organization_id}/survey Create a Survey
  • POST /rest/ads/{organization_id}/survey/{survey_id}/questions Create Survey Questions & Options
  • POST /rest/o/{organization_id}/delete_devices Delete devices from an organization
  • POST /rest/o/{organization_id}/g Create a group
  • POST /rest/o/{organization_id}/g/{group_id}/acl/{acl_id} Update Access Control List
  • POST /rest/o/{organization_id}/g/{group_id}/add_devices Add devices into group