use-rest-api

Testing & Quality

Use the Torrust Tracker REST API. Covers authentication, all endpoints (stats, metrics, torrents, auth keys, whitelist), and making announce/scrape requests to verify API behaviour. Triggers on "use API", "test API", "call REST API", "query API", "API endpoint", "curl tracker", "tracker client", "announce request", or "verify API".

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Use REST API

Prerequisites

A running tracker with the REST API enabled. The default development config starts the API on port 1212:

cargo run

Skill Links

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share/default/config/tracker.development.sqlite3.toml
packages/axum-rest-api-server/src/v1/middlewares/auth.rs
packages/axum-rest-api-server/src/routes.rs
packages/axum-rest-api-server/src/v1/routes.rs

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Authentication

All API endpoints (except /api/health_check) require an access token.

Header Method (preferred)

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer MyAccessToken" http://localhost:1212/api/v1/stats

Query Parameter Method

curl "http://localhost:1212/api/v1/stats?token=MyAccessToken"

Configuration

Tokens are defined in the TOML config file under [http_api.access_tokens]:

[http_api.access_tokens]
admin = "MyAccessToken"

Every token in the map has identical permissions — the label (admin) is just a human-readable name.

Endpoints

All endpoints use http://localhost:1212 as base (default dev config).

Health Check

Method	Endpoint	Auth
GET	`/api/health_check`	❌ No

curl -s http://localhost:1212/api/health_check

Stats

Method	Endpoint	Auth
GET	`/api/v1/stats`	✅ Yes
GET	`/api/v1/metrics`	✅ Yes

curl -s http://localhost:1212/api/v1/stats -H "Authorization: Bearer MyAccessToken"
curl -s http://localhost:1212/api/v1/metrics -H "Authorization: Bearer MyAccessToken"

Auth Keys

Method	Endpoint	Auth
POST	`/api/v1/key/{seconds_valid_or_key}`	✅ Yes
DELETE	`/api/v1/key/{seconds_valid_or_key}`	✅ Yes
GET	`/api/v1/keys/reload`	✅ Yes
POST	`/api/v1/keys`	✅ Yes

Whitelist

Method	Endpoint	Auth
POST	`/api/v1/whitelist/{info_hash}`	✅ Yes
DELETE	`/api/v1/whitelist/{info_hash}`	✅ Yes
GET	`/api/v1/whitelist/reload`	✅ Yes

Torrents

Method	Endpoint	Auth
GET	`/api/v1/torrent/{info_hash}`	✅ Yes
GET	`/api/v1/torrents`	✅ Yes

Making Announce Requests with the Tracker Client

The tracker_client binary can make BitTorrent announce requests to verify the tracker is working.

UDP Announce

cargo run -p torrust-tracker-client --bin tracker_client -- udp announce udp://localhost:6969/announce 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567

HTTP Announce

cargo run -p torrust-tracker-client --bin tracker_client -- http announce http://localhost:7070/announce 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567

Scrape

cargo run -p torrust-tracker-client --bin tracker_client -- udp scrape udp://localhost:6969/announce 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567

Output defaults to JSON. Use --format text for human-readable output.

Verification Workflow

After making an announce request, verify the API reflects the activity:

Check stats changed:

curl -s http://localhost:1212/api/v1/stats -H "Authorization: Bearer MyAccessToken"

Expect torrents and seeders to increase.

Check metrics changed:

curl -s http://localhost:1212/api/v1/metrics -H "Authorization: Bearer MyAccessToken"

Expect protocol-specific counters to increase.

Check tracker console logs show the request was received:
```
active_peers_total=1 active_torrents_total=1
```