Overview
This section describes a set of command line utilities which can interact (e.g. import documents to, list nodes etc) with your Papermerge DMS instance.
What is common to all command line utilities listed here is the “protocol” they use to interact with - they all use REST API interface Papermerge DMS. To state it differently - all following command line tools, in order to interact with Papermerge DMS need to know:
host address of the REST API server
the token used for authentication (i.e. REST API token)
Host Address
Host address should be provided with http://
or https://
prefix (depending
on the REST API server) and does NOT include /api suffix.
Examples: http://papermerge.local, https://mydms.com/, https://my-own-digital-archives.de
Note
REST API server may or may not end with /
character. Thus, both http://papermerge.local
and http://papermerge.local/ are valid.
REST API Token
REST API token can be obtained directly from respective command line utility e.g.:
$ papermerge-cli auth
or the REST API token can be obtained from Papermerge DMS user interface as described in user manual.