Getting Started with Meraki APIs V1
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Meraki has many different APIs. They cover all their Products: MX, MS, MR, MV, SM.
They can be divided according to their use cases, you’ll commonly see their API services being split into:
- Dashboard API
- Webhook API
- Location Streaming API
- Captive Portal API
- MV Sense API
At the end of the day, though, all their API calls are all documented very well using the OpenAPI Specification. They’ve made a great job making it all available as a Postman Document, which I’ll leave a link to it in the references section, a very handy resource when developing an API.
P.S.: Postman is a web/client-based API development tool, perfect to simulate calls and explore how certain APIs work.
Meraki recently released their API version 1.2 (in Oct 2020), which is tightly organized and has more than 400 different requests — it’s way better and larger than what they had in version “0”, where they had less than 200 requests (and increase of +100% in the number of available requests) .
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There are many use cases for these APIs, they all achieve better and more scalable ways for Administrators to Automate…
