create people and family objects and link them via the gramps web api
domain: grampsweb.org · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Authenticate with POST /api/token/ sending username and password to receive a JWT access token plus a refresh token; the access token expires quickly (default ~15 minutes)
Send the token as a standard Authorization: Bearer <token> header on all subsequent requests to your self-hosted Gramps Web instance
Create a person with POST /api/people/; retrieve, update, or delete an existing person via GET/PUT/DELETE /api/people/<handle>, and look up people by Gramps ID with GET /api/people/?gramps_id=<id>
Create a family with POST /api/families/; manage it via GET/PUT/DELETE /api/families/<handle>
Link a person to a family by fetching the family's internal handle, then PUT /api/people/<person_handle> with the family handle added to the person's parent_family_list (as a child) or family_list (as a spouse/parent) reference array
Check exact request/response schemas on your own instance's built-in Swagger UI at /api/swagger-ui, since the OpenAPI spec is auto-generated per deployed version
Known gotchas
There is no public shared Gramps Web API endpoint — this only works against an instance you self-host and configure yourself
The role/permission model (Guest < Member < Contributor < Editor < Owner < Administrator) gates writes; the Contributor role cannot add Family objects at all — Editor or higher is required for full CRUD
Access tokens are short-lived (~15 minutes by default), so long-running scripts must handle refreshing rather than assuming one login lasts the session
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