what is the url for password manager API ?

[Mxdev]

Hi community,

After successively getting a token from the identity endpoint, I am unable to use the Vault management API.

Failed to fetch vault status: Client error ‘404 Not Found’ for url ‘https://api.bitwarden.com/status’

Any idea what I am doing wrong ? I’d like to make direct calls to the API in Python.

Thanks

[grb]

Are you using the bw serve command from the CLI?

[Mxdev]

I am not using the CLI. I’m trying to use the password manager from a Python application, calling the REST API directly.

I presume I am not using the correct endpoint url.

[grb]

The API documentation indicates that the the Vault Management API is “accessible from the Bitwarden CLI” and doesn’t mention other methods for accessing the API. Thus, unless you have found information to the contrary, I would tend to believe that using the CLI is required.

The article from the Help Center clarifies the differences between the Public API and the Vault Management API, and states explicitly that to use the latter, you must first “use the serve command from the CLI to start a local express web server from which to make requests”:

Password Manager APIs | Bitwarden

[Mxdev]

Could i make a feature or documentattion request ? Technically, if the CLI uses the API, I don’t see what would prevent from calling the API in another language : curl, Python, or any language able to make an http request.

[grb]

bw serve is required to spin up a local web server that will handle end-to-end encryption. You can then use curl, Python, etc. to make HTTP requests against that server (default endpoint: http://localhost:8087). A little more detail is provided in this comment:

API support for managing items

I just realized what you were likely asking - here is a more detailed answer. When you execute the bw serve command in the CLI, it will bind to a hostname and port that you choose. The default is localhost on port 8087, and the api endpoints expose objects within whatever vault you have logged in to (could be hosted by Bitwarden.com or a self-hosted instance). So, in your terminal you might do something like this: bw login [email protected] bw serve & #run in background curl -X 'GET' 'http://…

[Mxdev]

I see. thanks for the additional details. I hadn’t realized using bw serve was a necessary step. I would agree with the comments left on the other post. It makes it much heavier to integrate. Initially, I wanted to build a simple Python library to integrate with bitwarden password manager but this requires to pre-install the CLI first, launch the server locally and call the API endpoints locally. I had wished the CLI commands would be available as REST endpoints from bitwarden.com or bitwarden.eu.

[grb]

If the above linked feature request thread doesn’t correspond to what you are looking for, feel free to start your own feature request.

In the meantime, please let us know if you have additional questions; if not, we can mark this Ask the Community topic as “solved”.

[Mxdev]

thanks. Closing this and have added my comments on the feature request thread.