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Introduction

If you are using your account to test multiple applications or builds, we recommend setting up a separate Local Testing connection for each. Local Testing API helps manage and debug these connections.

Enabling Local Testing API

Establish local testing connections using ‘–enable-logging-for-api’ parameter (more info here) - this enables Local Testing API. Now, you can use the API to manage and disconnect binary instances as follows:

Get a list of active binary instances

Run the following command through your command-line interface:

Usage: GET /local/<version>/list

Command Line
 curl -x GET https://www.browserstack.com/local/v1/list?auth_token=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&last=5&state=running
Parameters Value
version
The version of the API to be used.
Current version is v1
last
The number of recent binary instances to be listed.
Default:20, Maximum value: 100
state
Configures to list whether all binary instances or currently running instances.
all, running
default: running

Note: On success, you will get a response code 200

Response
 {
    "api_version": "v1",
    "meta_data": { "params": {}}
    "instances": [
      {
        "lastActiveOn": "2016-07-19 14:19:43 +0000",
        "localIdentifier": "",
        "email": "john@browserstack.com",
        "commandLineParams": "--key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --enable-logging-for-api",
        "public-IP": "8.8.4.4",
        "hostname": "my-local-box",
        "endTime": null,
        "disconnectReason": null,
        "startTime": "2016-07-19 14:12:58 +0000",
        "privateIP": ["127.0.0.1", "10.100.100.1", ….],
        "id": "QUERTY1"
      },
     {
        "lastActiveOn": "2016-07-19 14:19:43 +0000",
        "localIdentifier": "test-1",
        "email": "john@browserstack.com",
        "commandLineParams": "--key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --enable-logging-for-api --local-identifier test-1",
        "public-IP": "8.8.4.4",
        "hostname": "my-local-box",
        "endTime": null,
        "disconnectReason": null,
        "startTime": "2016-07-19 14:12:58 +0000",
        "privateIP": ["127.0.0.1", "10.100.100.1", ….],
        "id": "QUERTY2"
      },
    ...
      ]
  }

Retrieve details of an active binary instance using its ID

Usage: GET /local/<version>/<id>

Command Line
 https://www.browserstack.com/local/v1/QUERTY1?auth_token=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
Parameters Value
version
The version of the API to be used.
Current version is v1
id
The Binary id that needs to be retrieved
String value

Note: On success, you will get a response code 200

Response
  {
    "api_version": "v1",
    "meta_data": { "params": {}}
    "instances": [
      {
        "lastActiveOn": "2016-07-19 14:19:43 +0000",
        "localIdentifier": "",
        "email": "john@browserstack.com",
        "commandLineParams": "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --enable-logging-for-api",
        "public-IP": "8.8.4.4",
        "hostname": "my-local-box",
        "endTime": null,
        "disconnectReason": null,
        "startTime": "2016-07-19 14:12:58 +0000",
        "privateIP": ["127.0.0.1", "10.100.100.1", ….],
        "id": "QUERTY1"
      }
      ]
  }

Errors:

Response code/Description Response message
401
Authentication failed due to incorrect token.
{“error”: “Invalid auth token”}
422
The ID requested for is incorrect.
{“error”: “Incorrect id”}
503
There was an exception.
{“error”: “Something went wrong, please try again after sometime”}

Disconnect an active binary using its ID

Usage: DELETE /local/<version>/<id>

Command Line
 curl -X DELETE "https://www.browserstack.com/local/v1/QUERTY1?auth_token=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
Parameters Value
version
The version of the API to be used.
Current version is v1
id
The Binary id that needs to be retrieved
String value

Note: On success, you will get a response code 200

Response
{
    "api_version": "v1",
    "meta_data": { "params": {}},
    "message": "QUERTY1 successfully disconnected
                " / "QUERTY1 was already disconnected"
}

Errors:

Response code/Description Response message
401
Authentication failed due to incorrect token.
{“error”: “Invalid auth token”}
422
The ID requested for is incorrect.
{“error”: “Incorrect id”}
500
There was an exception.
{“error”: “Failed to disconnect, please try again. Contact us if the issue is persistent.”}

Note

  1. Requests to these APIs are throttled at 20 requests for 5 minutes
  2. For these APIs to include binaries in results, the binary should have been started with ‘enable-logging-for-api’ parameter. Example: ./BrowserStackLocal --key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --enable-logging-for-api <other_params>
  3. In case the ‘enable-logging-for-api’ parameter is not used the response would have empty instance. However the instance would still be recorded in our database without storing any sensitive information.

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