API

API server configuration

Before making requests, you need to make sure the API is up.

1. Go to Settings->API and enable the API by checking a checkbox.
2. Specify the IP address or hostname of the computer. To be able to communicate with the API from the same computer, you can specify localhost as the hostname. If you want the API to be accessible on the network, the specify the IP address on the local network. See determining the IP address.
3. In most cases you will not need to change the default port value, but sometimes it’s necessary in case of a conflict.

Once configured, press Apply and restart the app. Upon restart you should see a notification saying Everdo API is up.

Creating an inbox item

This action will create a new item in inbox. You can omit the optional properties from the request model.

// Action: POST /api/items
// Request Body:
{
    "title": "Inbox item",
    "note": "Example note", // Optional; Default = null
    "isFocused": true       // Optional; Default = false
}
// Response Body:
{
    "id": "B71C671F38144A9196D7D5C81B80BD7F" // This is a UUID-v4 that identifies the item in the database
    "createdOn": 1582089151                  // Unix seconds
}

Examples with curl

Try calling the API from the command line using the following snippets.

$ curl -k --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"title": "Hello API", "note": "Example" }' \
  https://localhost:11111/api/items?key=***

A command line script to add items to inbox

Here is how to make a script that allows you to create Inbox items from the terminal without opening the app. For example,

$ inbox "New item" "Some Description"
$ inbox "New item without description"

To create the inbox command:

1. Create a file named inbox using the snippet code below.
2. Make the script executable by running chmod +x inbox in the terminal
3. Move the inbox file to $PATH

#!/bin/bash

title=$1
note=$2

data()
{
    cat <<EOF
{
    "title": "$title",
    "note": "$note"
}
EOF
}

curl -ks --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request POST \
  --data "$(data)" \
  https://localhost:11111/api/items?key=*** > /dev/null