VoIP Spear: VoIP Spear API

Getting Started

Check to see that you can access the API by querying the root URL (i.e., https://voipspear.com). You will receive a "200 OK" response similar to the one below.

For the purposes of this test, you can use curl.

  curl -X GET https://voipspear.com/api/v3 -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
  
{
  "message": "VoIP Spear API: Property of Toepoke Software, Inc.   All rights reserved.  For more information, refer to www.voipspear.com."
}

Path Prefix

All requests to the API must have the path prefix /api/v3 prepended to them. Thus, when you see a path like /endpoints/3 in the documentation, the real path to use for your requests is /api/v3/endpoints/3.

Authentication

Except for the root URL, you must authenticate on every API request. VoIP Spear uses Basic authentication using your account's username and password.

You must create a dedicated user account to access the VoIP Spear API; only user accounts having a category of "API" will be authorized to send API requests.

You can check to see if you are able to authenticate to the API by requesting /my_account. In the example below, we are able to successfully authenticate using curl. If we were unable to authenticate, we would receive a "401 Unauthorized" response.

          curl -X GET https://voipspear.com -u <username>:<password> -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
          
{
  "me": {
    "id": 11427,
    "username": "apiuser",
    "name": "Ryan",
    "master": false,
    "email": "api@toepoke.com",
    "category": "API",
    "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)",
    "created_at": "2017-04-15 16:20:42",
    "deleted_at": null
  },
  "master_account": {
    "id": 11426,
    "username": "api",
    "name": "API Test",
    "master": true,
    "email": "api@toepoke.com",
    "category": "Admin",
    "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)",
    "created_at": "2017-04-15 16:17:35",
    "deleted_at": null
  },
  "plan": {
    "id": 19,
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": {
      "amount": 25.95,
      "currency": "USD"
    },
    "num_monitorables": 5,
    "num_users": 5,
    "num_servers": 3,
    "testing_frequency": 1,
    "archive_duration": 7,
    "alerts": true,
    "api_access": true,
    "advanced_testing": false,
    "private": false
  }
}

Let's Get Started

Once you are able to authenticate, you can get started. Proceed to the next section where you will learn to manage your user accounts.