Hey All,
Testing out Mattermost as a Slack Alternative. We’re using the self hosted opensource version (latest version) and are looking at automating some of the boards when a project is created, but I cant find anywhere any API documentation on this.
I have looked through here Mattermost API Reference and can see the general Mattermost stuff, and the playbooks at the bottom, but nothing on boards.
I know it was focalboard previously and has only just been integrated, but seems that the API endpoints here GitHub & BitBucket HTML Preview don’t seem to work with the mattermost endpoints as I’m getting 404 for everything I’ve tried thus far.
agriesser
June 20, 2023, 2:26am
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Hi James and welcome to the Mattermost forums!
Please check out this GitHub issue and let me know if it helped.
opened 06:26AM - 04 Jan 23 UTC
closed 11:23AM - 18 Jan 23 UTC
Bug
#### Summary
Unable to perform operations on the integrated focalboard via API.… Also, no mention of focalboard api in [mattermost docs](https://api.mattermost.com/).
#### Expected behavior
I installed a preview version of mattermost via docker container ([from these instructins](https://docs.mattermost.com/install/install-docker.html#preview-mattermost-using-docker). Ensured plugin is enabled and mattermost board is enabled. I want to perform operations on the mattermost board via API. For eg, writing a script to migrate our issues from another tool (say phabricator or gitlab issues) to focalboard. But I am unable to find any documentation around this. i tried the API endpoints mentioned in [focalboard docs](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/blob/main/server/swagger/docs/html/index.html#examples-Default-getBoards-0-python) but they are not working either.
Few queries that i tried
```
// query related to teams (from mattermost api)
$ curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer wjd5jd9amby7bd59ye4cgo3egy" "http://127.0.0.1:8065/api/v4/teams"
[{"id":"6mnza3dgwiy7785ndk95ohbdsy","create_at":1672779224457,"update_at":1672779224457,"delete_at":0,"display_name":"sem","name":"sem","description":"","email":"trial@gmail.com","type":"O","company_name":"","allowed_domains":"","invite_id":"ukwofmfxn3yo389cngyrgouz9y","allow_open_invite":false,"scheme_id":null,"group_constrained":null,"policy_id":null,"cloud_limits_archived":false}]
// few queries related to boards
$ curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer wjd5jd9amby7bd59ye4cgo3egy" "http://127.0.0.1:8065/teams/6mnza3dgwiy7785ndk95ohbdsy/boards"
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$ curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer wjd5jd9amby7bd59ye4cgo3egy" "http://127.0.0.1:8065/api/v2/teams/6mnza3dgwiy7785ndk95ohbdsy/boards"
{"id":"api.context.404.app_error","message":"Sorry, we could not find the page.","detailed_error":"There doesn't appear to be an api call for the url='/api/v2/teams/6mnza3dgwiy7785ndk95ohbdsy/boards'. Typo? are you missing a team_id or user_id as part of the url?","status_code":404}
$ curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer wjd5jd9amby7bd59ye4cgo3egy" "http://127.0.0.1:8065/api/v4/teams/6mnza3dgwiy7785ndk95ohbdsy/boards"
{"id":"api.context.404.app_error","message":"Sorry, we could not find the page.","detailed_error":"There doesn't appear to be an api call for the url='/api/v4/teams/6mnza3dgwiy7785ndk95ohbdsy/boards'. Typo? are you missing a team_id or user_id as part of the url?","status_code":404}bharath@tpx13:~/Documents/mnet_specific/SEM/sem-codebase/phab-migration/mattermost$
```
#### Observed behavior (that appears unintentional)
Pls advise with regards how to use API for boards.
NOTE: I had previously opened an issue at mattermost-server repo (https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/21981) but was asked to reopen it here