Mikrotik Api Examples Here

Connect to your router via SSH or the WinBox terminal and run the following commands:

Use POST to create new configurations.

: Always use port 8729 (API-SSL) in production environments. Generate or import a trusted SSL certificate onto your MikroTik router to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

api = connect(host="ROUTER_IP", username="admin", password="yourpass") # list interfaces for item in api.path('interface').get(): print(item) mikrotik api examples

The MikroTik API is a powerful gateway to automate every aspect of RouterOS. From simple configuration management to complex event-driven automation, integrating the API into your workflows can reduce human error, save hours of manual labor, and enable real-time network adaptivity.

This script connects to the router and prints basic hardware and software resource statistics.

: Create dedicated RouterOS user groups for your API scripts. If a script only reads data (like monitoring traffic), grant it only read and api permissions. Do not grant write or policy permissions unless strictly necessary. Connect to your router via SSH or the

: Do not use the master admin account for API scripts. Navigate to /user/group and create an api_group with only the permissions ( read , write , api ) required for the specific task. Then assign a specific user account to that group.

The raw API is difficult to work with (it requires handling sockets, lengths, and end-of-sentence markers manually). However, the community has built excellent wrappers.

- name: Configure IP address on MikroTik community.routeros.api: commands: - /ip/address/add =address=10.0.0.1/24 =interface=ether1 : Create dedicated RouterOS user groups for your API scripts

To pull active network routes from RouterOS v7 using standard JSON formatting:

response = api.path('system', 'resource').get() resource = next(response) # Returns an iterator print(f"CPU Load: resource['cpu-load']%") print(f"Free Memory: int(resource['free-memory'])/1024/1024:.2f MB") print(f"Uptime: resource['uptime']")