Jamf Pro API Overview

Jamf Pro API Documentation

The base URL for the Jamf Pro API is located at /api on each Jamf Pro instance. Documentation and “Try it out” features are built into each instance of Jamf Pro, and can be accessed at /api/doc.

Authentication and Authorization

Client Credentials

Beginning in version 10.49.0, support for Client Credentials authentication was introduced for the Jamf Pro and Classic APIs. See Client Credentials for additional details.

Bearer Tokens

The Jamf Pro API supports Bearer Token authentication and uses the standard User Accounts and Groups functionality of Jamf Pro. The Create, Read, Update and Delete privileges for an account or group within Jamf Pro correspond respectively with the POST, GET, PUT and DELETE HTTP methods. For more information on the privileges required to perform a specific API operation, see Privileges and Deprecations.

The Jamf Pro API leverages the same User Accounts and Groups functionality of Jamf Pro as the Classic API, but uses a token-based authentication scheme. In order to perform successful requests to the Jamf Pro API you must present a valid token in the Authorization header of each request. The workflow of requesting an initial token and using that token in API requests is outlined below:

1. Using basic authentication, request a Bearer Token by sending a POST to /v1/auth/token.
2. You should receive a response that includes a token and an expiration date similar to the following example:

{
    "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9...",
    "expires": "2022-01-24T21:35:20.373Z"
}

3. You can use the previously generated token to make calls to any other Jamf Pro API endpoint by including it in a header using the format Authorization: Bearer TOKEN_VALUE

Need a little help getting started with Bearer Tokens? We've got you covered, with an example code snippet:

By default, tokens expire after 30 minutes, but you can use a currently valid token to generate a new token with a fresh 30 minute validity period, using the /v1/auth/keep-alive endpoint. Simply send a POST to the endpoint with the existing token in an Authorization header like you would to any other endpoint (see step 3 above). The keep-alive endpoint will respond with a new token and expiration and will invalidate the previous token.

Below you will find a link to a Postman collection that can be used to generate tokens and store them as variables for future API calls in Postman. After downloading and importing the collection, click the ellipsis next to the “Jamf Pro API Authentication” collection and select Edit. Navigate to the Variables tab and populate the username, password and URL for your Jamf Pro environment. Now the endpoints can be used to generate, refresh or invalidate tokens. Use the {{accessToken}} variable with the Bearer Token authentication type selected to perform calls to all other Jamf Pro API endpoints.

HTTP Methods

The Jamf Pro API is a RESTful interface that uses standard HTTP methods to issue requests and receive responses.

POST

POST is used to create new objects or issue new actions. All POST operations require that a JSON body be passed with the request. Jamf Pro auto-assigns the object an ID and will respond to successful requests with the ID of the created resource.

GET

GET is used to retrieve information identified by the request-URI. Many endpoints support URL query parameters to allow for searching, sorting, and filtering of responses. Supported parameters are documented within the API Reference page.

PUT

PUT is used to update existing records, identified by the request-URI. PUT will overwrite all fields specified within the request body with the values specified, any omitted fields will be set to a null value. Responses to successful requests will include the ID of the updated resource.

DELETE

DELETE is used to remove the resource identified by the request-URI. If successful the message response should include the ID of the deleted resource.

PATCH

PATCH is used to selectively update fields for a resource, identified by the request-URI. If successful, the response will include the ID of the updated resource.

Schema

The Jamf Pro API was designed to interact with JSON data types when interacting with most endpoints. In some cases, JSON is not an intuitive data type to support certain workflows, such as file uploads or certificate interactions. Some endpoints include support for interacting with other data types which are denoted in the right column of the API Reference section. The Accept header will indicate acceptable data types to pass to Jamf Pro, while endpoints that support multiple response types will include a dropdown selector as pictured below.

Response Codes

The Jamf Pro API returns standard HTTP status codes for both successful and unsuccessful API calls. All errors returned will contain an HTML response that will contain a message with a description of the failure.

Common response codes and steps to troubleshoot failures.