# Required Rest client API for Rancher services access

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/required-rest-client-api-for-rancher-services-access/10972>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [July 1, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/required-rest-client-api-for-rancher-services-access/10972 "2018-07-01T08:48:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![raghu588](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5a626/32.png) [@raghu588](https://forums.suse.com/u/raghu588)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/required-rest-client-api-for-rancher-services-access/10972/1 "2018-07-01T08:48:49Z")

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Hi,

Can anyone provide me any references how to access rancher service apis(jsons) from external application(like scala…). Means Rest Client is my application and i need to get the rancher service api to my scala application. Please suggest it would be a great help.

Thanks,  
Raghu.

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**Author:** ![cjellick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/cjellick/32/2876_2.png) [@cjellick](https://forums.suse.com/u/cjellick)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/required-rest-client-api-for-rancher-services-access/10972/2 "2018-07-02T17:46:38Z")

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We don’t have detailed documentation on using the API, but the two best places to start are:

1. The API UI where you can interactively play with the API. Its at `https://<your rancher>/v3`
2. The `rancher` cli. If you set the environment variable `RANCHER_CLIENT_DEBUG=true`, you will see all API requests the CLI makes