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ThousandEyes Emulation API

The Emulation API facilitates the retrieval of user-agent strings for HTTP, pageload, and transaction tests. It also enables the retrieval and addition of emulated devices for pageload and transaction tests. To access Emulation API operations, the following permissions are required: * `Settings Tests Read` for read operations. * `Settings Tests Update` for write operations.

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thousandeyes-emulation-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.0.1
security:
- BearerAuth: []
servers:
- description: ThousandEyes API production URL
  url: https://api.thousandeyes.com/v7
info:
  version: 7.0.100
  title: Emulation API
  description: '**Note:** All Emulation APIs are not available for ThousandEyes for Government instance.


    The Emulation API facilitates the retrieval of user-agent strings for HTTP, pageload, and transaction tests. It also enables
    the retrieval and addition of emulated devices for pageload and transaction tests.


    To access Emulation API operations, the following permissions are required:


    * `Settings Tests Read` for read operations.

    * `Settings Tests Update` for write operations.

    '
  x-provenance:
    method: harvested
    authored_by: Cisco ThousandEyes
    harvested_by: API Evangelist
    harvested_on: '2026-08-19'
    first_party: true
    provider_published: true
    source_host: pubhub.devnetcloud.com
    note: 27 OpenAPI 3.0 documents (26 per-area plus a unified 326-operation document) served anonymously from Cisco's DevNet
      CDN. api.thousandeyes.com itself 401s every path, so the contract is public while the API host is gated.
  x-evidence:
  - type: source
    url: https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/000-v7-apis/docs/reference/
  - type: source
    url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/thousandeyes/
tags:
- name: Emulation
paths:
  /user-agents:
    get:
      tags:
      - Emulation
      summary: List user-agents
      operationId: getUserAgents
      description: Retrieves a list of user-agent strings.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountGroupId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/hal+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserAgents'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/404'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/429'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
  /emulated-devices:
    get:
      tags:
      - Emulation
      summary: List emulated devices
      operationId: getEmulatedDevices
      description: Retrieves a list of emulated devices available for browser tests.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ExpandEmulatedDevice'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/hal+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmulatedDeviceResponses'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/404'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/429'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
    post:
      tags:
      - Emulation
      summary: Create emulated device
      operationId: createEmulatedDevice
      description: Creates a new device for emulation.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountGroupId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmulatedDevice'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Created
          content:
            application/hal+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmulatedDeviceResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/404'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/429'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Bearer authentication token
  schemas:
    UserAgents:
      type: object
      properties:
        userAgents:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserAgent'
        _links:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SelfLinks'
    UserAgent:
      type: object
      properties:
        browser:
          type: string
          description: The name of the web browser.
          example: Firefox
        os:
          type: string
          description: The operating system for the user-agent HTTP header.
          example: Windows
        value:
          type: string
          description: The text of the user-agent header.
          example: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70
            Mobile Safari/537.36
    EmulatedDevice:
      type: object
      required:
      - category
      - width
      - height
      properties:
        category:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmulatedDeviceCategory'
        width:
          type: integer
          description: The width of the display of the emulated device.
          example: 1024
          minimum: 50
          maximum: 9999
        height:
          type: integer
          description: The height of the display of the emulated device.
          example: 768
          minimum: 50
          maximum: 9999
    EmulatedDeviceResponses:
      type: object
      properties:
        emulatedDevices:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmulatedDeviceResponse'
        _links:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SelfLinks'
    EmulatedDeviceResponse:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmulatedDevice'
      - type: object
        properties:
          name:
            type: string
            description: The device name
            example: iPad Pro 12.9-in
          codeName:
            type: string
            description: A code corresponding to the device name.
            example: IPAD_PRO_12_9
          id:
            type: string
            description: ID of the emulated device.
            example: '11'
          availableUserAgents:
            type: array
            description: A list of user-agent strings for this emulated device.
            items:
              type: string
            example:
            - Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70
              Mobile Safari/537.36
            - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.5993.70 Safari/537.36
          defaultUserAgentTemplate:
            type: string
            description: The default user-agent template to use for this device.
            example: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Tablet; rv:70.0) Gecko/70.0 Firefox/70.0
    ExpandEmulatedDeviceOptions:
      type: string
      enum:
      - user-agent
    EmulatedDeviceCategory:
      type: string
      description: The type of device being emulated.
      example: desktop
      enum:
      - desktop
      - laptop
      - phone
      - tablet
    UnauthorizedError:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          example: invalid_token
        error_description:
          type: string
          example: Invalid access token
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          description: A URI reference that identifies the problem type. When this member is not present, its value is assumed
            to be "about:blank".
        title:
          type: string
          description: A short, human-readable summary of the problem type.
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP status code generated by the origin server for this occurrence of the problem.
        detail:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.
        instance:
          type: string
          description: A URI reference that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.
    Link:
      type: object
      description: A hyperlink from the containing resource to a URI.
      required:
      - href
      properties:
        href:
          type: string
          description: Its value is either a URI [RFC3986] or a URI template [RFC6570].
          example: https://api.thousandeyes.com/v7/link/to/resource/id
        templated:
          type: boolean
          description: Should be true when the link object's "href" property is a URI template.
        type:
          type: string
          description: Used as a hint to indicate the media type expected when dereferencing the target resource.
        deprecation:
          type: string
          description: Its presence indicates that the link is to be deprecated at a future date. Its value is a URL that
            should provide further information about the deprecation.
        name:
          type: string
          description: Its value may be used as a secondary key for selecting link objects that share the same relation type.
        profile:
          type: string
          description: A URI that hints about the profile of the target resource.
        title:
          type: string
          description: Intended for labelling the link with a human-readable identifier
        hreflang:
          type: string
          description: Indicates the language of the target resource
    SelfLinks:
      type: object
      description: A links object containing the self link.
      readOnly: true
      properties:
        self:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Link'
  parameters:
    ExpandEmulatedDevice:
      name: expand
      in: query
      description: 'Optional query parameter that controls whether user-agent templates are included in the response.

        By default, user-agent templates are not included. To include them, add `?expand=user-agent` to the request.

        '
      required: false
      style: form
      explode: false
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExpandEmulatedDeviceOptions'
        example:
        - user-agent
    AccountGroupId:
      name: aid
      in: query
      description: A unique identifier associated with your account group. You can retrieve your `AccountGroupId` from the
        `/account-groups` endpoint. Note that you must be assigned to the target account group. Specifying this parameter
        without being assigned to the target account group will result in an error response.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
        example: '1234'
  responses:
    '401':
      description: Unauthorized
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedError'
    '403':
      description: Insufficient permissions to query endpoint
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    '404':
      description: Not found
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          example:
            type: about:blank
            title: URI Resource Not Found
            status: 404
            detail: Details explaining if the 404 error is related to an invalid URI or a wrong ID
            instance: /v7
    '429':
      description: Exhausted rate limit for the organization
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    '500':
      description: Internal server error
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          example:
            type: about:blank
            title: Internal server error
            status: 500
            detail: Optional detail about the internal error message.
            instance: /v7