Query sites and devices in Ubiquiti UISP via the Network API
domain: uisp.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Generate an API token in UISP under Settings -> Users -> API tokens.
Send it on every request as the X-Auth-Token header, which also protects against CSRF, to your instance's https://<your-domain>/nms/api/v2.1/ base path.
List managed devices with a GET to the /devices endpoint, which returns fields like display name, hostname, IP, firmware, and model.
Browse your own instance's interactive reference at /nms/api-docs/ to confirm current field names and site-related endpoints, since UISP's Network API evolved from the earlier UNMS branding.
For self-signed on-prem installs, be prepared to pass an allow-self-signed-certificate style parameter when adopting devices over the WebSocket-based discovery flow (separate from the plain REST token auth).
Known gotchas
Device discovery/adoption uses separate SSH/HTTPS device credentials from the API token used for read/query calls — don't conflate the two credential flows.
Community forum reports describe API tokens intermittently failing to authenticate on some installs — build in retry/re-auth handling rather than assuming a token failure is always a config error.
On-prem installs with self-signed certificates need explicit certificate handling in both device adoption and possibly your HTTP client's TLS verification settings.
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