Artifactory provides a convenient and up-to-date self-descriptive API that can be used by various tools/frameworks to automate the creation of REST calls.
Usage
Distribution provides a convenient and up-to-date self-descriptive API that can be used by various tools/frameworks to automate the creation of REST calls.
Distribution REST API endpoints can be invoked in any of the standard ways to invoke a RESTful API. This section describes how to use the Distribution REST API using cURL as an example.
Using and Configuring cURL
You can download cURL here. Learn how to use and configure cURL here.
Authentication
Distribution's REST API supports these forms of authentication:
Basic authentication using your username and password
Basic authentication using your username and API Key
Using an Access Token
instead of a password for basic authentication.
Using an Access Token
as a bearer token in an authorization header (
Authorization: Bearer) with your access token.
Base URL
The Platform REST URL is constructed of:
<JFrog URL>/<Service Context>/api/<API-Version>
For example:
# Using your JFrog URL http://myjfrog.acme.org/distribution/api/v1 # Using your Artifactory server hostname and the Artifactory router port http://ARTIFACTORY_SERVER_HOSTNAME:8082/distribution/api/v1