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API Documentation

myMPD uses a JSON-RPC 2 for the communication between frontend and backend.

JSON-RPC Id

The json-rpc Id is the combination of two numeric ids.

  1. Client ID: Generated on initial loading of the client, first 6 digits
  2. Request ID: Incremented on each request, last 3 digits, wraps around

The websocket connection registers the Client ID on the webserver. This registration is used to send async responses from the webserver to a specific client.

Endpoints

API endpoint: /api/<partition>

Notifications from the backend to the frontend are sent over a websocket connection.

Websocket endpoint: /ws/<partition>

Example API calls

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":0,"method":"MYMPD_API_PLAYER_STATE","params":{}}

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":0,"method":"MYMPD_API_PLAYER_VOLUME_SET","params":{"volume":60}}

Pin protection

If myMPD is protected with a pin some methods require authentication with a special header.

Authenticate

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":0,"method":"MYMPD_API_SESSION_LOGIN","params":{"pin": "<pin>"}}

Use the session string in the response for authenticated requests. The session is valid for 30 minutes.

Authenticated request

To send a request with authentication data add a X-myMPD-Session header to it.

X-myMPD-Session: <token>

Validate the token

Content-Type: application/json
X-myMPD-Session: <token>

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":0,"method":"MYMPD_API_SESSION_VALIDATE","params":{}}

Logout

Content-Type: application/json
X-myMPD-Session: <token>

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":0,"method":"MYMPD_API_SESSION_LOGOUT","params":{}}