Emby Connect Invite via API

[msmcpeake 8]

Hello, I am trying to automate the creation of accounts and adding their Emby ID from a form.  What is the proper way of sending an invite from my server via a link/API call?  I cannot find great documentation about this.  I would like to be walked through it if possible.  Thanks!

[rechigo 364]

Make a post request to this URL: http://<address>:<port>/emby/Users/<userid>/Connect/Link

 

with a content type of application/json

 

In the json body, you want to add a ConnectUsername property, which will contain the username/email of the connect account you wish to link

 

(this also needs the X-Emby-Token header containing an emby api key otherwise the request will fail)

 

Let me know if you need anymore help, this is just a brief explanation

Edited March 25, 2020 by rechigo

[rechigo 364]

This is how it would look if you wanted to call it using cURL: 

curl -X POST -d "{\"ConnectUsername\":\"<yourconnectusername>\"}" -H "X-Emby-Token:<yourapikey>" -H "Content-Type:application/json"  http://<address>:<port>/emby/Users/<userid>/Connect/Link

[msmcpeake 8]

 

This is how it would look if you wanted to call it using cURL: 

curl -X POST -d "{\"ConnectUsername\":\"<yourconnectusername>\"}" -H "X-Emby-Token:<yourapikey>" -H "Content-Type:application/json"  http://<address>:<port>/emby/Users/<userid>/Connect/Link

 

 

This is the error I receive:

curl -X POST -d "{\"ConnectUsername\":\"msmcpeake\"}" -H "X-Emby-Token:<redacted>" -H "Content-Type:application/json"  http://<redacted>:8096/emby/Users/msmcpeake/Connect/Link

Input string was not in a correct format.

[rechigo 364]

 

This is the error I receive:

curl -X POST -d "{\"ConnectUsername\":\"msmcpeake\"}" -H "X-Emby-Token:<redacted>" -H "Content-Type:application/json"  http://<redacted>:8096/emby/Users/msmcpeake/Connect/Link

Input string was not in a correct format.

 

you can't use your username, you have to use your user id

Edited March 25, 2020 by rechigo

[msmcpeake 8]

Just for anyone struggling in the future, this is my PHP CURL configuration.  Just figured this all out thanks to rechigo

 

 

I passed Username from a form on a web page (the variable $name), then created a user on Emby from that variable. I then got the output from curl and got the user Id ($userid), and put the two together to link Emby Connect to the user!

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, '<server ip>:8096/emby/Users/New?api_key=<api key>');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "{\"Name\":\"{$name}\"}");

$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Accept: application/json';
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$result = curl_exec($ch);



if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
					
				
				
$json = json_decode($result, true);				
$userid = $json['Id'];				
				
				
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "<server ip>:8096/emby/Users/{$userid}/Connect/Link?api_key=<api key>");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "{\"ConnectUsername\":\"{$name}\"}");

$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Accept: application/json';
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$result2 = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);

Edited March 26, 2020 by msmcpeake

[rechigo 364]

Glad you got it working\!

[maxt.v 10]

Hi, do you know how to work with the PIN ?

I don't understand how it works neither manually or by API

[Luke 42083]

On 7/10/2020 at 3:38 AM, maxt.v said:

Hi, do you know how to work with the PIN ?

I don't understand how it works neither manually or by API

hi @maxt.v what exactly are you trying to do?