Metabase

Metabase Sessions API

Authentication and session management.

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Operations 2

POST /session Create a session #

DELETE /session Delete a session #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Metabase Sessions API
  description: The Metabase API provides programmatic access to Metabase, an open source business intelligence and analytics platform. It allows developers to manage dashboards, questions (cards), collections, databases, users, permissions, and to execute queries against connected data sources.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Metabase
    url: https://www.metabase.com
  license:
    name: AGPL-3.0
    url: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
servers:
- url: https://your-metabase-instance.com/api
  description: Self-hosted or cloud Metabase instance
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- SessionAuth: []
tags:
- name: Sessions
  description: Authentication and session management.
paths:
  /session:
    post:
      tags:
      - Sessions
      summary: Create a session
      description: Authenticate using username and password to obtain a session ID.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - username
              - password
              properties:
                username:
                  type: string
                  format: email
                password:
                  type: string
                  format: password
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Session created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: string
        '400':
          description: Invalid credentials.
      operationId: postSession
      x-operation-id-source: derived
    delete:
      tags:
      - Sessions
      summary: Delete a session
      description: Sign out the current session.
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Session deleted.
      operationId: deleteSession
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
    SessionAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Metabase-Session