Introduction

Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/ticket system with many features to manage customer communication via several channels like telephone, facebook, twitter, chat and e-mails.

This chapter describes the Zammad API v1.

The API

Zammad provides a REST/JSON API. Its endpoints are documented with the HTTP method for the request and a partial resource:

GET /api/v1/users

The full URL looks like:

https://your_zammad/api/v1/users

Curly braces {} indicate values you have to supply for the URL:

GET /api/v1/users/{id}

Authentication

Zammad supports three different authentication methods for API.

HTTP Basic Authentication (username/password)

The username/password must be provided as HTTP header in the HTTP call. The Zammad admin can enable/disable the authentication method in the admin interface. Read more about HTTP basic authentication on Wikipedia.

$ curl -u {username}:{password} https://your_zammad/api/v1/users

HTTP Token Authentication (access token)

The access token must be provided as HTTP header in the HTTP call. Each user needs to create its own access token in the user preferences. The Zammad admin can enable/disable the authentication method in the admin interface.

$ curl -H "Authorization: Token token={your_token}" https://your_zammad/api/v1/users

OAuth2 (token access)

The Zammad API supports OAuth2 authorization. In order to create OAuth2 tokens for an external application, the Zammad user needs to create an application in the admin interface. The access token then has to be given within the HTTP header:

$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer {your_token}" https://your_zammad/api/v1/users

Request Format

Zammad uses JSON for its API, so you need to set a “Content-Type: application/json” in each HTTP call. Otherwise the response will be text/html.

POST /api/v1/users/{id} HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name":"some name",
  "organization_id": 123,
  "note":"some note"
}

Example CURL Requests

# Get information
$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/tickets/3

# Put information
$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{ json: "data" }' https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/tickets/3

# Post information
$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{ json: "data" }' https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/tickets/3

Example CURL Requests (for tickets and users)

# Create a new ticket
$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"title":"Help me!","group": "Users","article":{"subject":"some subject","body":"some message","type":"note","internal":false},"customer":"email_of_existing_customer@example.com","note": "some note"}' https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/tickets

# Search for tickets (with contains "some message")::
$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 'https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/tickets/search?query=some+message&limit=10&expand=true'

# Search for tickets (for tickets with state new and open )::
$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 'https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/tickets/search?query=state:new%20OR%20state:open&limit=10&expand=true'

# Create a new user
curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"firstname":"Bob","lastname":"Smith","email":"email_of_customer@example.com","roles":["Customer"],"password":"some_password"}' https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/users

# Create a new user (with welcome email)
$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"firstname":"Bob","lastname":"Smith","email":"email_of_customer@example.com","roles":["Customer"],"password":"some_password","invite":true}' https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/users

# Search for users
$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 'https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/users/search?query=smith&limit=10&expand=true'

Hint

For more search examples regarding searching, please see this page .

Example CURL Request on behalf of a different user

It is possible to do a request on behalf of a different user. If you have your own application and you want to create a ticket for the customer without the information that the api user has created this ticket then you can transfer the target user with the request to create the ticket on behalf of the customer user:

$ curl -u test@zammad.com:test123 -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-On-Behalf-Of: user-login" -X POST -d '{"title":"Help me!","group": "Users","article":{"subject":"some subject","body":"some message","type":"note","internal":false},"customer":"email_of_existing_customer@example.com","note": "some note"}' https://xxx.zammad.com/api/v1/tickets

The value of the header has to contain one of the following values:

  • user id
  • user login
  • user email

The value types will be checked in a cascade and the first detected user by id, login or email will be used for the request action.

This functionality can be used for any type of action.

Requirements for the feature:

  • Authenticated user must have admin.user permissions
  • Feature is available since Zammad version 2.4

Response Format

If a response is successful, an HTTP status code in the 200 or 300 range will be returned. If an item has been created or updated, all new attributes will be returned (also server side generated attributes like created_at and updated_at):

Status: 201 Created
Content-Type:application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "id": 123,
  "name":"some name",
  "organization_id": 123,
  "note":"some note",
  "updated_at": "2016-08-16T07:55:42.119Z",
  "created_at": "2016-08-16T07:55:42.119Z"
}

Response Format (expanded)

If you want to retrieve expanded information for a request (e. g. the organization attribute), you just need to add an expand=true to the request URL:

GET /api/v1/users/{id}?expand=true HTTP/1.1

will return the following structure, expanded by “organization”:

Status: 200 Ok
Content-Type:application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "id": 123,
  "name":"some name",
  "organization_id": 123,
  "organization": "Some Organization Name",
  "note":"some note",
  "updated_at": "2016-08-16T07:55:42.119Z",
  "created_at": "2016-08-16T07:55:42.119Z"
}

API clients