API basics - how to pull a password

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Hi, could you get me started on API access to retrieve passwords.

I’m a vaultwarden and API novice.

So far I have tried:
$ curl https://vaultwarden.mydomain.tld/list/object/items
$ curl https://vaultwarden.mydomain.tld/api/object/password/{id}

…to no avail (404 and other errors)

Any basic steps would be apprecaited.

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Vaultwarden does not support the public Bitwarden API.
We only support the client API which is very different.

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Thanks for the info.
Is the client API documented? And would you be so kind as to give me a sample curl call to it?

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It is not documented. Best way would be to use a browser and use the Developer Console (F12) and see what calls it does.

An other option would be, and that might be a better solution for you is to use the Bitwarden CLI, which has a built-in API Server.
See: Password Manager CLI | Bitwarden Help Center

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Thanks - I’ll take a look at both options.

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You may wish to look at the documented valut management API.

Which as mentioned can be accomplished with bw serve command using the Bitwarden CLI.

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For posterity, this pulls in the whole vault

curl --request GET \
    --url "https://vaultwarden-instance.com/api/sync?excludeDomains=true" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>"

Decrypting here https://github.com/jcs/rubywarden/blob/master/API.md#cipher-encryption-and-decryption

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Hey, sorry for reviving this old post. I am trying to automate new user invitation with the Vaultwarden API. How do you find the token to authenticate?

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