Redmine API¶

Redmine exposes some of its data through a REST API. This API provides access and basic CRUD operations (create, update, delete) for the resources described below.

Most of the time, the API requires authentication. This is done via HTTP Basic authentication using the regular Redmine accounts. To enable this API-style authentication, check Enable REST API in Administration -> Settings -> Authentication.

At the time of writing, the API is only available in trunk (see r3310, r3313).

API Description¶

• Issues
• Projects

API Usage¶

Ruby¶

Redmine REST API follows the Rails's RESTful conventions, so using it with ActiveResource is pretty straightforward.

Here is a simple ruby script that demonstrates how to use the Redmine REST API:

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_resource'

# Issue model on the client side
class Issue < ActiveResource::Base
  self.site = 'http://redmine.server/'
  self.user = 'foo'
  self.password = 'bar'
end

# Retrieving issues
issues = Issue.find(:all)
puts issues.first.subject

# Retrieving an issue
issue = Issue.find(1)
puts issue.description
puts issue.author.name

# Creating an issue
issue = Issue.new(:subject => 'REST API', :assigned_to_id => 1, :project_id => 1)
if issue.save
  puts issue.id
else
  puts issue.errors.full_messages
end

# Updating an issue
issue = Issue.find(1)
issue.subject = 'REST API'
issue.save

# Deleting an issue
issue = Issue.find(1)
issue.destroy