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title: "NetBird REST API"
description: "API to manipulate groups, rules, policies and retrieve information about peers and users"
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<span className={"theme-doc-version-badge badge badge--secondary"}>Version: 0.0.1</span>

# NetBird REST API



API to manipulate groups, rules, policies and retrieve information about peers and users

<div style={{"marginBottom":"2rem"}}><h2 id={"authentication"} style={{"marginBottom":"1rem"}}>Authentication</h2><SchemaTabs className={"openapi-tabs__security-schemes"}><TabItem label={"HTTP: Bearer Auth"} value={"BearerAuth"}><div><table><tbody><tr><th>Security Scheme Type:</th><td>http</td></tr><tr><th>HTTP Authorization Scheme:</th><td>bearer</td></tr><tr><th>Bearer format:</th><td>JWT</td></tr></tbody></table></div></TabItem><TabItem label={"API Key: TokenAuth"} value={"TokenAuth"}>

Prefix the value with \"Token\" to indicate the custom authorization type

<div><table><tbody><tr><th>Security Scheme Type:</th><td>apiKey</td></tr><tr><th>Header parameter name:</th><td>Authorization</td></tr></tbody></table></div></TabItem></SchemaTabs></div>