Introduction

The Airplane API is currently available to customers as a beta and is subject to change. Please reach out to us at hello@airplane.dev with any feedback!

The Airplane API enables customers to further integrate Airplane into their workflows. The API is loosely organized around top-level resources, is more RPC than REST, accepts JSON-encoded bodies, and returns JSON-encoded responses. The current API endpoints allow for programmatic execution of tasks and runbooks.

To use the API to execute a task, you first need an API key. Download the Airplane CLI and generate a key by running:

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airplane apikeys create <token name>

See Authentication for details.

Once you have your API key, you need to find the slug of the task you wish to run. You can find your task's slug next to the task's name within the task editor or by running airplane tasks list from the CLI. Once you have the task slug, you can execute the task by running the following curl command:

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# Substitute YOUR_API_KEY_HERE with your API key
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curl https://api.airplane.dev/v0/tasks/execute \
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  -X POST \
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  -H "X-Airplane-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
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  -d '{
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        "slug": "hello_world",
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        "paramValues": {
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            "limit": "10"
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        },
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    }'

Executing the task returns a run ID:

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{
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  "runID": "run20220215zv10o6s52qj"
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}

You can then use the run ID to check on the status of the run along with other metadata:

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curl https://api.airplane.dev/v0/runs/get \
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  -H "X-Airplane-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
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  -d 'id=run20220215zv10o6s52qj' \
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  -G