Rest API sync now not working

[cedardoc]

I’m trying to get syncthing to sync on demand from a bash script, but when I test this at the terminal it doesn’t work:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8384/rest/db/scan

CSRF Error

what am I doing wrong?

I also tried it with a specific folder like this:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8384/rest/db/scan?folder=default&sub=“/home/pi/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/NVIDIA_SHIELD/SyncthingFolders/ZettlrMarkor”

with and without quotes (because of the spaces in the filename (which I can’t rename as the usb drive is hard-wire named that)) and that gave a different error, but all I need is “sync all folders now”

Thanks,

• Dave

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

Please refer to REST API — Syncthing v1 documentation, specifically the paragraph about using an api key.

[cedardoc]

Thanks. I generated the API key in the GUI and then tried this:

david@hpb:~$ curl -X POST -H “X-API-Key: 4iNg(xxxx)yuCdh” http://127.0.0.1:8384/rest/db/scan?folder=default

CSRF Error

[cedardoc]

I found this to test (from here: How to integrate your Syncthing, and even make it talk - Share your Projects! - Home Assistant Community)

Try if it works

Using curl in a terminal window, you can easily check if the REST API works. Let’s assume Syncthing runs on a machine called studio1 in the local network. Type the following command, substituting server name and API key with your own:

curl -X GET -H "X-API-Key: Ziegheizee7do7Je8uiMiepu8Abeevee" http://studio1:8384/rest/system/version

You should get a JSON response like …

… but I didn’t get the proper response, instead got

david@Orby:~$ curl -X GET -H “X-API-Key: tTeDxxxVbPAn” http://127.0.0.1:8384/rest/system/version

CSRF Error

Any hints about what I am doing wrong?

[kluppy]

Is it a simple copy error? ” does not equal "

[cedardoc]

this DOES work at one computer:

curl -X POST -H “X-API-Key: ZLSvqmxxx35UCxu” http://127.0.0.1:8384/rest/db/scan?

and so does this:

curl -X POST -H “X-API-Key: ZLSvqmxxx35UCxu” http://127.0.0.1:8384/rest/db/scan?folder=(folder ID)

v1.13.1, Linux (64-bit Intel/AMD) “Fermium Flea” Build 2021-01-11

I’ll check the version number at home later - maybe different versions work differently? (should be the same version I think)

[imsodin (Simon)]

Double check the api key. Maybe there’s a simple copy&paste error, maybe you are copying from the wrong config.xml file (you can copy from the web UI to be sure that’s not the case).

[cedardoc]

Oh, that’s what that other post meant (d’oh!)

thank you so much, I’ll try that again