All requests to the reporting API must be authenticated using an API key.
Key Generation
An API key can be generated by following these steps in your HammerTech system. Requires company admin rights.
- Log into your HammerTech system
- Using the menu on the left select My Account
- Select API Keys from the drop down menu
- Press the Add(+) button
- Use the Description field to give your key a meaningful name or purpose
- Press the Create button
- Save the generated key for future reference
Please treat this key with the same security that you would your account password.
Authenticating Requests
Requests are authenticated using Basic Authentication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication).
User name is the part of your HammerTech URL that comes before hammertechonline.com. For example, for a URL of http://abc123.hammertechonline.com, use abc123 as the user name.
Password is the API key you created via Key Generation.