topic Re: Inquiry about API key in General Topics

Inquiry about API key

qmso475 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:33:06 GMT

In order to receive the Palo Alto Firewall api key
I checked " curl -k -X GET 'https://<fw-ip>/api/?type=keygen&user=<id>&password=<password>' " in the docs
but where is this command have to enter it?

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-panorama-api/get-started-with-the-pan-os-xml-api/get-your-api-key

Re: Inquiry about API key

BPry — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:34:37 GMT

@qmso475,

This example is simply given using cURL since it's the defacto standard across most operating systems; you would simply copy and paste that request, replacing everything in <> with their actual values. Alternatively you can just go to the actual URL from your browser.

Re: Inquiry about API key

kiwi — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:28:39 GMT

Hi @qmso475 ,

As @BPry mentioned you can just go to the url using your browser.

Drop the curl command and go to https://<fw-ip>/api/?type=keygen&user=<id>&password=<password> directly using your preferred browser to get the key:

If you use the curl settings then you can use windows cmd or mac terminal to execute the command:

I hope this can help you.

Kind regards,

-Kiwi.