Postman API GET URL

[Cole]

I am fairly new to the API world. I have manged to get the Meraki API collection into Postman but I am not able to get some of them to produce information. I am currently trying to run the API to get a list of group policies:

https://api.meraki.com/api/v0/networks/:networkId/groupPolicies

I am not sure what the network ID variable is. How should this information be entered into Postman?

[theshmike · Accepted solution]

Every network in you org has an unique ID. You can iterate all networks with corresponding IDs with https://api.meraki.com/api/v0/organizations/:organizationId/networks 

Before, you can iterate all orgs your api key has access to with https://dashboard.meraki.com/api/v0/organizations

[Cole]

Thank you for the reply, I was able to obtain the information I needed. Guess it's time to start stumbling through my API education.

[Nash]

@theshmike is exactly right.

If I can offer general advice: Get some basic information first, then work backwards from the call you want to use to see what it needs.

These call names are based off the names at https://dashboard.meraki.com/api_docs

You will typically need to know your org ID, your network ID, device serial number, and/or client ID.

Org ID: For multiple orgs, assume you'll have to use "List the organizations that the user has privileges on" each time. If you have a single org, you could run it once and record your org ID someplace secure-ish. 

Network ID: Once you have the org ID, you can get your networkID(s) using "List the networks in an organization".

Now that you have those, look at the other variables that your target call needs.

Serial number? You can get that using "List devices in an organization" OR "List devices in a network". Or look at the dashboard.

Client ID? Use "List the clients that have used this network in the timespan" to get a list of client IDs, then find your target based off its mac address.

Always double-check how timespans work, by the way. It may have changed, but used to be some were seconds and some were done in Unix epoch time.

[Cole]

Thank you for this information it is very helpful. I really appreciate the quick responses in this community. One of these days I might be able to offer some good advice. Have a great day everyone!