Using the KOBO REST API on a locally hosted KOBO server

Hussein_Lightwalla · December 17, 2015, 7:04am

Hello,

Is it possible to interact with a locally hosted KOBO server (using what’s available on GitHub, specifically, dkobo) with a REST API, similar to how we can interact with the https://kc.kobotoolbox.org server? How do we go about doing this? Could someone kindly assist with a code snippet showing how to do this, with an example REST API call?

Thank you!

Hussein

Tino_Kreutzer · December 30, 2015, 9:02pm

Hi Hussein,

You can use the REST API on your local server just like you’d use the online version. For example, instead of https://kc.kobotoolbox.org/api/v1/ you would access it at http://localhost:8001/api/v1/. This API only covers the data management side of KoBoToolbox. dkobo doesn’t have an API, but we’re about to release the new version of the formbuilder and library which will include a full set of API endpoints as well.

Best,

Tino

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Hello,

Is it possible to interact with a locally hosted KOBO server (using what’s available on GitHub, specifically, dkobo) with a REST API, similar to how we can interact with the https://kc.kobotoolbox.org server? How do we go about doing this? Could someone kindly assist with a code snippet showing how to do this, with an example REST API call?

Thank you!

Hussein

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Hussein_Lightwalla · December 31, 2015, 11:41am

Thanks Tino, for the feedback. I’ll attempt hosting my own Kobo instance and try out the API from there.

Kind regards,