Looking for a curl example to retrieve folders and dashboards using the Folder/Dashboard Search API

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Hello All,
I like to ask if a curl expert could provide a basic example on how to retrieve folders and dashboards using “Folder/Dashboard Search API”. I have tried many variations of curl syntax with no luck, any examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!
Mike

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Can you give an example of what doesn’t work for you?

Here’s a cURL command that works for getting the home dashboard, when running Grafana locally with default admin credentials:

curl http://admin:admin@localhost:3000/api/dashboards/home
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The most basic example (for a dashboard for which there is no authentication required) is just to do:

curl 'https://play.grafana.org/api/search'

It’ll cap you at a thousand dashboards, but other than that the result is a list of dashboards with their associated folders.

If you need authentication as well I’d recommend creating API keys from Configuration > API keys

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <paste key here>" https://play.grafana.com/api/search

but you can also either use basic auth (like in Arve’s comment :point_up_2:) or even a regular cookie-based session (most browsers [at least Firefox, Chrome, and Safari] have a “Copy as cURL” in their development tools, you can start with that and then remove different elements).

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