Ingest via API

Port's API is a generic interface to model your software catalog, ingest data, invoke actions, query scorecards and more.

💡 Common Port API usage

Since Port API is a generic interface, anything that can be done with Port is possible through the API, for example:

• Update the software catalog using a script.
• Import your existing asset inventory from a CSV file.
• Integrate Port with your custom CI/CD.
• Report the status of a running CI job.
• Update the software catalog about a new build version for a microservice.
• Get existing data from your software catalog.

Get API Token

In order to interact with the API you will need an API token.

Getting an API token involves 2 steps:

1. Finding your Port API credentials.
2. Making an API request to generate a valid token.

Find your Port credentials

To get your Port credentials, open the Credentials modal. Here you can view and copy your CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET:

Generate an API token

Here are some code examples showing how to generate an API token in various programming languages:

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'

API_URL = 'https://api.port.io/v1'

credentials = {'clientId': CLIENT_ID, 'clientSecret': CLIENT_SECRET}

token_response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/auth/access_token', json=credentials)

access_token = token_response.json()['accessToken']

# You can now use the value in access_token when making further requests

Javascript

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install axios --save

const axios = require("axios").default;

const CLIENT_ID = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID";
const CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET";

const API_URL = "https://api.port.io/v1";

(async () => {
  const response = await axios.post(`${API_URL}/auth/access_token`, {
    clientId: CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: CLIENT_SECRET,
  });

  const accessToken = response.data.accessToken;

  // You can now use the value in accessToken when making further requests
})();

cURL

# Dependencies to install:
# For apt:
# $ sudo apt-get install jq
# For yum:
# $ sudo yum install jq

access_token=$(curl --location --request POST 'https://api.port.io/v1/auth/access_token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "clientId": "CLIENT_ID",
    "clientSecret": "CLIENT_SECRET"
}' | jq '.accessToken' | sed 's/"//g')

# The token will be available in the access_token variable

Selecting a Port API URL by account region

The port_region, port.baseUrl, portBaseUrl, port_base_url and OCEAN__PORT__BASE_URL parameters select which Port API instance to use:

• EU (app.port.io) → https://api.port.io
• US (app.us.port.io) → https://api.us.port.io

Ingest data via API

Since Port is API-first it is possible to create and update entities using simple REST calls from any platform you use.

Setup

To use Port's REST API you need to perform the following steps:

1. Find your Port credentials.
2. Save them as secrets or in some other same manner such that you can reference them in your code or CI/CD flow.
3. Make sure you have an HTTP-capable client.
   1. For example: cURL, python with the requests package, nodejs with fetch/axios, etc.

Usage

Since you are using Port's REST API directly, any method that the API provides is at your disposal.

We will focus on three specific use cases:

• Get catalog entities - available by making HTTP GET requests to https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/{blueprint_identifier}/entities/{entity_identifier}, receives the identifier of an existing entity and retrieves it for use in your CI.
• Create/Update catalog entities - available by making HTTP POST requests to https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/{blueprint_identifier}/entities/, receives the identifier and other properties of a new entity or an entity that needs to be updated.
• Delete catalog entities - available by making HTTP DELETE requests to https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/{blueprint_identifier}/entities/{entity_identifier}, receives the identifier of an existing entity and deletes it.

Get

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'

API_URL = 'https://api.port.io/v1'

credentials = {'clientId': CLIENT_ID, 'clientSecret': CLIENT_SECRET}

token_response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/auth/access_token', json=credentials)

access_token = token_response.json()['accessToken']

# You can now use the value in access_token when making further requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'
}

blueprint_id = 'MY_BLUEPRINT'
entity_id = 'MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER'

response = requests.get(f'{API_URL}/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/entities/{entity_id}', headers=headers)

# Entity is in response.json()["entity"]

Javascript

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install axios --save

const axios = require("axios").default;

const CLIENT_ID = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID";
const CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET";

const API_URL = "https://api.port.io/v1";

(async () => {
  const response = await axios.post(`${API_URL}/auth/access_token`, {
    clientId: CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: CLIENT_SECRET,
  });

  const accessToken = response.data.accessToken;

  // You can now use the value in accessToken when making further requests

  const blueprintId = "MY_BLUEPRINT";
  const entityId = "MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER";

  const config = {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
    },
  };

  const getResponse = await axios.get(
    `${API_URL}/blueprints/${blueprintId}/entities/${entityId}`,
    config
  );

  // Entity is in getResponse.data.entity
})();

cURL

# Dependencies to install:
# for brew:
# brew install jq
# For apt:
# $ sudo apt-get install jq
# For yum:
# $ sudo yum install jq

access_token=$(curl --location --request POST 'https://api.port.io/v1/auth/access_token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "clientId": "CLIENT_ID",
    "clientSecret": "CLIENT_SECRET"
}' | jq '.accessToken' | sed 's/"//g')

# The token will be available in the access_token variable

blueprint_id='MY_BLUEPRINT'
entity_id='MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER'

curl --location --request GET "https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/${blueprint_id}/entities/${entity_id}" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json"

# Use jq '.entity' to read the entity

Create

A basic create request will create a new entity if one with the provided identifier doesn't exist yet, and will fail with a 409 CONFLICT status code otherwise.

A basic create request is noted by providing no query parameters, or providing the upsert query parameter with its value set to false.

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'

API_URL = 'https://api.port.io/v1'

credentials = {'clientId': CLIENT_ID, 'clientSecret': CLIENT_SECRET}

token_response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/auth/access_token', json=credentials)

access_token = token_response.json()['accessToken']

# You can now use the value in access_token when making further requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'
}

blueprint_id = 'MY_BLUEPRINT'

entity = {
  'identifier': 'MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER',
  'title': 'MY TITLE',
  'properties': {
    'MY_STRING_PROP': 'MY VALUE',
    'MY_BOOLEAN_PROP': False
  },
  'relations': {}
}

response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/entities', json=entity, headers=headers)

# Entity is in response.json()["entity"]

Javascript

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install axios --save

const axios = require("axios").default;

const CLIENT_ID = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID";
const CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET";

const API_URL = "https://api.port.io/v1";

(async () => {
  const response = await axios.post(`${API_URL}/auth/access_token`, {
    clientId: CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: CLIENT_SECRET,
  });

  const accessToken = response.data.accessToken;

  // You can now use the value in accessToken when making further requests

  const blueprintId = "MY_BLUEPRINT";

  const config = {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
    },
  };

  const entity = {
    identifier: "MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER",
    title: "MY TITLE",
    properties: {
      MY_STRING_PROP: "MY VALUE",
      MY_BOOLEAN_PROP: false,
    },
    relations: {},
  };

  const postResponse = await axios.post(
    `${API_URL}/blueprints/${blueprintId}/entities`,
    entity,
    config
  );

  // Entity is in postResponse.data.entity
})();

cURL

# Dependencies to install:
# For apt:
# $ sudo apt-get install jq
# For yum:
# $ sudo yum install jq

access_token=$(curl --location --request POST 'https://api.port.io/v1/auth/access_token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "clientId": "CLIENT_ID",
    "clientSecret": "CLIENT_SECRET"
}' | jq '.accessToken' | sed 's/"//g')

# The token will be available in the access_token variable

blueprint_id='MY_BLUEPRINT'

curl --location --request POST "https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/${blueprint_id}/entities" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data-raw '{
    "identifier": "MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER",
    "title": "MY ENTITY TITLE",
    "properties": {
            "MY_STRING_PROP": "MY VALUE",
            "MY_BOOLEAN_PROP": false
    }
}'

# Use jq '.entity' to read the entity

Create/Update

A create/update request will create a new entity if one with the provided identifier doesn't exist yet, and will only update the values of fields provided in the request, if an entity with the identifier already exists.

A create/update request is noted by providing the query parameter: upsert=true&merge=true.

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'

API_URL = 'https://api.port.io/v1'

credentials = {'clientId': CLIENT_ID, 'clientSecret': CLIENT_SECRET}

token_response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/auth/access_token', json=credentials)

access_token = token_response.json()['accessToken']

# You can now use the value in access_token when making further requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'
}

blueprint_id = 'MY_BLUEPRINT'

entity = {
  'identifier': 'MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER',
  'title': 'MY TITLE',
  'properties': {
    'MY_STRING_PROP': 'MY VALUE',
    'MY_BOOLEAN_PROP': False
  },
  'relations': {}
}

# Note the ?upsert=true&merge=true query parameters
response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/entities?upsert=true&merge=true', json=entity, headers=headers)

# Entity is in response.json()["entity"]

Javascript

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install axios --save

const axios = require("axios").default;

const CLIENT_ID = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID";
const CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET";

const API_URL = "https://api.port.io/v1";

(async () => {
  const response = await axios.post(`${API_URL}/auth/access_token`, {
    clientId: CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: CLIENT_SECRET,
  });

  const accessToken = response.data.accessToken;

  // You can now use the value in accessToken when making further requests

  const blueprintId = "MY_BLUEPRINT";

  const config = {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
    },
  };

  const entity = {
    identifier: "MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER",
    title: "MY TITLE",
    properties: {
      MY_STRING_PROP: "MY VALUE",
      MY_BOOLEAN_PROP: false,
    },
    relations: {},
  };

  // Note the ?upsert=true&merge=true query parameters
  const postResponse = await axios.post(
    `${API_URL}/blueprints/${blueprintId}/entities?upsert=true&merge=true`,
    entity,
    config
  );

  // Entity is in postResponse.data.entity
})();

cURL

# Dependencies to install:
# For apt:
# $ sudo apt-get install jq
# For yum:
# $ sudo yum install jq

access_token=$(curl --location --request POST 'https://api.port.io/v1/auth/access_token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "clientId": "CLIENT_ID",
    "clientSecret": "CLIENT_SECRET"
}' | jq '.accessToken' | sed 's/"//g')

# The token will be available in the access_token variable

blueprint_id='MY_BLUEPRINT'

# Note the ?upsert=true&merge=true query parameters
curl --location --request POST "https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/${blueprint_id}/entities?upsert=true&merge=true" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data-raw '{
    "identifier": "MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER",
    "title": "MY ENTITY TITLE",
    "properties": {
            "MY_STRING_PROP": "MY VALUE",
            "MY_BOOLEAN_PROP": false
    }
}'

# Use jq '.entity' to read the entity

Create/Override

A create/override request will create a new entity if one with the provided identifier doesn't exist yet, and will override all existing values if an entity with the identifier already exists, keeping only the values of fields provided in the request.

A create/override request is noted by providing the query parameter: upsert=true, while not including the merge parameter (or setting its value to false)

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'

API_URL = 'https://api.port.io/v1'

credentials = {'clientId': CLIENT_ID, 'clientSecret': CLIENT_SECRET}

token_response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/auth/access_token', json=credentials)

access_token = token_response.json()['accessToken']

# You can now use the value in access_token when making further requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'
}

blueprint_id = 'MY_BLUEPRINT'

entity = {
  'identifier': 'MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER',
  'title': 'MY TITLE',
  'properties': {
    'MY_STRING_PROP': 'MY VALUE',
    'MY_BOOLEAN_PROP': False
  },
  'relations': {}
}

# Note the ?upsert=true query parameter
response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/entities?upsert=true', json=entity, headers=headers)

# Entity is in response.json()["entity"]

Javascript

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install axios --save

const axios = require("axios").default;

const CLIENT_ID = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID";
const CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET";

const API_URL = "https://api.port.io/v1";

(async () => {
  const response = await axios.post(`${API_URL}/auth/access_token`, {
    clientId: CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: CLIENT_SECRET,
  });

  const accessToken = response.data.accessToken;

  // You can now use the value in accessToken when making further requests

  const blueprintId = "MY_BLUEPRINT";

  const config = {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
    },
  };

  const entity = {
    identifier: "MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER",
    title: "MY TITLE",
    properties: {
      MY_STRING_PROP: "MY VALUE",
      MY_BOOLEAN_PROP: false,
    },
    relations: {},
  };

  // Note the ?upsert=true query parameter
  const postResponse = await axios.post(
    `${API_URL}/blueprints/${blueprintId}/entities?upsert=true`,
    entity,
    config
  );

  // Entity is in postResponse.data.entity
})();

cURL

# Dependencies to install:
# For apt:
# $ sudo apt-get install jq
# For yum:
# $ sudo yum install jq

access_token=$(curl --location --request POST 'https://api.port.io/v1/auth/access_token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "clientId": "CLIENT_ID",
    "clientSecret": "CLIENT_SECRET"
}' | jq '.accessToken' | sed 's/"//g')

# The token will be available in the access_token variable

blueprint_id='MY_BLUEPRINT'

# Note the ?upsert=true query parameter
curl --location --request POST "https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/${blueprint_id}/entities?upsert=true" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data-raw '{
    "identifier": "MY_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER",
    "title": "MY ENTITY TITLE",
    "properties": {
            "MY_STRING_PROP": "MY VALUE",
            "MY_BOOLEAN_PROP": false
    }
}'

# Use jq '.entity' to read the entity

Delete

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'

API_URL = 'https://api.port.io/v1'

credentials = {'clientId': CLIENT_ID, 'clientSecret': CLIENT_SECRET}

token_response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/auth/access_token', json=credentials)

access_token = token_response.json()['accessToken']

# You can now use the value in access_token when making further requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'
}

blueprint_id = 'MY_BLUEPRINT'

entity_id = 'MY_ENTITY'

response = requests.delete(f'{API_URL}/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/entities/{entity_id}', headers=headers)

# response.json() is {"ok": true}

Javascript

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install axios --save

const axios = require("axios").default;

const CLIENT_ID = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID";
const CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET";

const API_URL = "https://api.port.io/v1";

(async () => {
  const response = await axios.post(`${API_URL}/auth/access_token`, {
    clientId: CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: CLIENT_SECRET,
  });

  const accessToken = response.data.accessToken;

  // You can now use the value in accessToken when making further requests

  const blueprintId = "MY_BLUEPRINT";

  const entityId = "MY_ENTITY";

  const config = {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
    },
  };

  const deleteResponse = await axios.delete(
    `${API_URL}/blueprints/${blueprintId}/entities/${entityId}`,
    config
  );

  // deleteResponse.data is {ok: true}
})();

cURL

# Dependencies to install:
# For apt:
# $ sudo apt-get install jq
# For yum:
# $ sudo yum install jq

access_token=$(curl --location --request POST 'https://api.port.io/v1/auth/access_token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "clientId": "CLIENT_ID",
    "clientSecret": "CLIENT_SECRET"
}' | jq '.accessToken' | sed 's/"//g')

# The token will be available in the access_token variable

blueprint_id='MY_BLUEPRINT'

entity_id='MY_ENTITY'

curl --location --request DELETE "https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/${blueprint_id}/entities/${entity_id}" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $access_token"

# Response is {"ok": true}

Delete All

It is possible to delete all entities of a blueprint with a single request using a dedicated route.

It is also possible to delete the blueprint containing the entities within the same delete operation by adding the delete_blueprint=true query parameter, for example: https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/<BLUEPRINT_IDENTIFIER>/all-entities?delete_blueprint=true.

limitation

The delete all route can only be used if the blueprint does not have required relations.

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'

API_URL = 'https://api.port.io/v1'

credentials = {'clientId': CLIENT_ID, 'clientSecret': CLIENT_SECRET}

token_response = requests.post(f'{API_URL}/auth/access_token', json=credentials)

access_token = token_response.json()['accessToken']

# You can now use the value in access_token when making further requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'
}

blueprint_id = 'MY_BLUEPRINT'

response = requests.delete(f'{API_URL}/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/all-entities', headers=headers)

# response.json() is {"ok": true}

Javascript

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install axios --save

const axios = require("axios").default;

const CLIENT_ID = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID";
const CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET";

const API_URL = "https://api.port.io/v1";

(async () => {
  const response = await axios.post(`${API_URL}/auth/access_token`, {
    clientId: CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: CLIENT_SECRET,
  });

  const accessToken = response.data.accessToken;

  // You can now use the value in accessToken when making further requests

  const blueprintId = "MY_BLUEPRINT";

  const config = {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
    },
  };

  const deleteResponse = await axios.delete(
    `${API_URL}/blueprints/${blueprintId}/all-entities`,
    config
  );

  // deleteResponse.data is {ok: true}
})();

cURL

# Dependencies to install:
# For apt:
# $ sudo apt-get install jq
# For yum:
# $ sudo yum install jq

access_token=$(curl --location --request POST 'https://api.port.io/v1/auth/access_token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "clientId": "CLIENT_ID",
    "clientSecret": "CLIENT_SECRET"
}' | jq '.accessToken' | sed 's/"//g')

# The token will be available in the access_token variable

blueprint_id='MY_BLUEPRINT'

curl --location --request DELETE "https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/${blueprint_id}/all-entities" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $access_token"

# Response is {"ok": true}

Delete all entities via the UI

It is also possible to delete all entities using Port's web UI:

1. Go to the Data model page in Port.
2. Click on the "Delete All BLUEPRINT_NAME" button on the desired blueprint.
3. Follow the instructions.

Note: only users with the admin role can use Port's UI to perform the delete all operation.

Selecting a Port API URL by account region

The port_region, port.baseUrl, portBaseUrl, port_base_url and OCEAN__PORT__BASE_URL parameters select which Port API instance to use:

• EU (app.port.io) → https://api.port.io
• US (app.us.port.io) → https://api.us.port.io

Rate limits

For more information about Port's rate limits and how to avoid them, check out the rate limits page.