The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.18 and newer, which added the ability to view API resources for reports. If you are using a version previous to v6.18, see documentation for previous versions. |
License Statistics offers a web-based API that communicates through the HTTP protocol API (Application Program Interface) is web-based (it communicates through the ubiquitous HTTP protocol) and can be used across a number of programming language languages and tools. The API can be defined as a set of requirements and rules that specify how to communicate with an application. It is noteworthy that using the API does not require knowledge of any programming languages. License Statistics UI, which you may already be familiar with, uses the same API requests as the ones specified here; therefore, you can generate the same license usage data using only API and you can use this data in many ways, for example, to automatically generate the reports of your choice and With the API, you can automate report generation and extract reports on demand in order to easily integrate them with other business processes; for example, to view the reports you care about most or send them via email to your manager , or a specific department of your company, or otherwise make use of them.
Please review the following sections for information about generating an API token, supported HTTP methods as well as details about the syntax for requests and responses.
The License Statistics API is especially useful for system integrators and advanced users who want to get even more flexibility from License Statistics. The License Statistics UI is one use case for using the API, because it uses the same API to display data in a web browser. To aid in integration with the License Statistics UI, you can see a preview of the API resources for that report by clicking the "Show API resource" icon 
located at the upper right corner of most report pages. See Viewing API resources for more detailed information.
In order to get started, please review the following sections to:
- Find out how to generate an API token.
- Learn how to make API requests.
- Find out how to use the API to generate data from reports based on the examples for each endpoint.