Authentication

Starling API works on javascript web-tokens. The default validity for the tokens is 1 year. It will be changed to shorter duration soon.

Base URL for all requests: http://starling.exploreembedded.com

Obtaining the token

http verb Request Response Description
POST /api/authenticate token Pass email and password as body parameter to obtain a web token

Example with CURL

curl -X POST -F "email=your@email.com" -F "password=password" \ 
'http://starling.exploreembedded.com/api/authenticate'
{"token":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXUyJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIyIiwiaXNzIjoiaHR0c
DpcL1wvc3RhcmxpbmcuZXhwbG9yZWVtYmVkasdfdsfNvbVwvYXBpXC9hdXRoZW50.
iwiZXhwIjoiMTQsdfeaeSEFEA0NiIsIm5iZiI6IjE0NTE1NjMwNDYiLCJqdGkiOiI4asdfew}

Curl Response

example with postman
[
  {
    "id": "4",
    "user_id": "2",
    "name": "EE unit 4",
    "product_id": "STAR0004",
    "location": "",
    "configuration":{
      "lines":"2" ,
      "brightness":"100",
      "current_message":"hello world",
      "scroll_speed":"6",
      "font":"arial"
    },
    "created_at": "2015-12-28 14:27:07",
    "updated_at": "2015-12-28 14:27:07"
  }
]