Working with API from JavaScript

There is a special case to allow calls to the API from JavaScript: if your code is located on Wild Apricot site pages (for example, on some page in your_organization.wildapricot.org), then the API calls can be made with the permissions of the currently logged in user. However, your JavaScript code should provide the clientId in a separate HTTP header.

In this case, you don’t need an authentication token, since authentication is based on website session cookie.

Example:

$.ajax({
  url: "/sys/api/v2/accounts/58293/contacts/me",
  type: "GET",
  dataType: "json",
  cache: false,
  async: true,
  headers: { "clientId": "APPLICATION_CLIENT_ID" },
  success: function (data, textStatus, jqXhr) {
    alert("Current contact email:" + data.Email);},
  error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
    alert(textStatus + " (" + jqXHR.status + ") : " + errorThrown);}
});