https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Any-way-to-do-API-calls-to-Splunk-without-using-an-Account-with/m-p/46317#M8718 <P>Depending on the resources you are trying to access, you probably do need admin credentials. See the topic <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.1/RESTAPI/RESTresources">Accessing Splunk resources</A> in the REST API Reference for additional information.</P> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:18:26 GMT ChrisG 2012-11-27T20:18:26Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Any-way-to-do-API-calls-to-Splunk-without-using-an-Account-with/m-p/46316#M8717 <P>I am trying to access some API calls through splunk and pull data out of an index with API calls. All the examples in the SDK use the admin userid to perform the searches. Is it possible to access the API without using a user with admin authority?</P> <P>Id like to create a account just for API calls so that our custom scripts/applications can query splunk directly. The issue here is that I dont want to have to share an admin enabled account with users/devs to accomplish. </P> <P>Anyone know how to do this? I have played around with this, but cannot get the searches working with anything but admin. </P> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:29:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Any-way-to-do-API-calls-to-Splunk-without-using-an-Account-with/m-p/46316#M8717 ryneily 2012-11-27T19:29:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Any-way-to-do-API-calls-to-Splunk-without-using-an-Account-with/m-p/46317#M8718 <P>Depending on the resources you are trying to access, you probably do need admin credentials. See the topic <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.1/RESTAPI/RESTresources">Accessing Splunk resources</A> in the REST API Reference for additional information.</P> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:18:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Any-way-to-do-API-calls-to-Splunk-without-using-an-Account-with/m-p/46317#M8718 ChrisG 2012-11-27T20:18:26Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Any-way-to-do-API-calls-to-Splunk-without-using-an-Account-with/m-p/46318#M8719 <P>Hi GhrisG. Could you clarify please.<BR /> For example,<BR /> I have several search heads in my Splunk cluster. I'd like to restrict permissions for one particular search head (<STRONG>even for admins</STRONG> there). Is this possible?<BR /> Thanks in advance!</P> Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:51:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Any-way-to-do-API-calls-to-Splunk-without-using-an-Account-with/m-p/46318#M8719 highsplunker 2019-08-18T16:51:54Z