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Authentication

Public endpoints, such as the list of exercises or the ingredients can be accessed without authentication. For user owned objects such as workouts, you need to authenticate.

JWT Authentication

This is the suggested way. You generate a temporary token which you send in the header with each request that needs authorization

1. Get the tokens

Send your username and password to the /api/v2/token endpoint, you will get an access and a refresh token back.

result = requests.post(
    'https://wger.de/api/v2/token',
    data={'username': 'user', 'password': 'admin'}
)
access_token = result.json()['access']
refresh_token = result.json()['refresh']

print(result.json())
>>> {'refresh': 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1...', 'access': 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI...'}
    

2. Authenticate

Pass the access token in the Authorization header as "Bearer: your-token"

result = requests.get(
    'https://wger.de/api/v2/workout/',
    headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'}
)

print(result.json())
>>> {'count': 5, 'next': None, 'previous': None, 'results': [{'id':.....

Additionally, you can send the access token to /token/verify endpoint to verify it.

result = requests.post('https://wger.de/api/v2/token/verify', data={'token': access_token})
    

3. Refresh

When this short-lived access token expires, you can use the longer-lived refresh token to obtain another access token.

result = requests.post(
    'https://wger.de/api/v2/token/refresh/',
    data={'refresh': refresh_token}
)
token = result.json()

print(token)
>>> {'access': 'eyJhbGciOiJI...'}

Permanent Token

Note that this method is not recommended. You can also pass a permanent token in the header to authenticate, but this method should be considered deprecated. If you want to generate a token use this page.

Username and password

You can also get a token from the login endpoint. Send a username and password in a POST request. IF the user doesn't currently have a token, a new one will be generated for you

Format negotiation

At the moment only JSON and the browsable HTML view are supported. That means that you can use the same endpoints from your browser or a client. Because of this, for the majority of REST clients it will not be necessary to explicitly set the format, but you have the following options:

• Set the Accept header:
  • application/json
  • application/json; indent=4 - useful for debugging, will indent the result
  • text/html - browsable HTML view
• Set the format directly in the URL:
  • /api/v2/<endpoint>.json/
  • /api/v2/<endpoint>/?format=json
  • /api/v2/<endpoint>.api/ - browsable HTML view

Miscellaneous operations

Ordering

Simply use ?ordering=<fieldname> to order by that field. You can also specify more than one field name, just give it a list separated by commas ?ordering=<field1>,<field2>. To reverse the order use like in django a - in front of the field.

Pagination

By default all results are paginated by 20 elements per page. If you want to change this value, add a ?limit=<xxx> to your query. You will find in the answer JSON the next and previous keywords with links to the next or previous result pages.

Filtering resources

You can easily filter all resources by specifying the filter queries in the URL: ?<fieldname>=<value>, combinations are possible, the filters will be AND-joined: ?<f1>=<v1>&<f2>=<v2>. Please note that for boolean values you must pass 'False' or 'True' other values, e.g. 1, 0, false, etc. will be ignored. Like with not filtered queries, your objects will be available under the 'results' key.

Note that it is not currently possible to specify more than one value, e.g. category 1 or 2. The only exception to this is the exercises endpoint, there it is possible to OR different values, e.g. ?muscles=2,7 which will search for exercises that train muscle 2 OR 7.

Some examples:

• All exercises in German: api/v2/exercise/?language=1
• 'Main' image for all exercises: api/v2/exerciseimage/?is_main=True
• Exercises that train the biceps with barbells: api/v2/exercise/?muscles=1&equipment=3