Updated on 2023-12-28 GMT+08:00

Obtaining a Project ID

Scenarios

A project ID is required for some URLs when an API is called. Therefore, you need to obtain a project ID in advance. Two methods are available:

Obtain the Project ID by Calling an API

You can obtain a project ID by calling the API used to query projects based on specified criteria.

The API is GET https://{Endpoint}/v3/projects. The {Endpoint} can be obtained from Regions and Endpoints For details about API authentication, see Authentication.

The following is an example response. The value of id is the project ID.

{
    "projects": [
        {
            "domain_id": "65382450e8f64ac0870cd180d14e684b",
            "is_domain": false,
            "parent_id": "65382450e8f64ac0870cd180d14e684b",
            "name": "project_name",
            "description": "",
            "links": {
                "next": null,
                "previous": null,
                "self": "https://www.example.com/v3/projects/a4a5d4098fb4474fa22cd05f897d6b99"
            },
            "id": "a4a5d4098fb4474fa22cd05f897d6b99",
            "enabled": true
        }
    ],
    "links": {
        "next": null,
        "previous": null,
        "self": "https://www.example.com/v3/projects"
    }
}

Obtain a Project ID from the Console

To obtain a project ID from the console, perform the following operations:
  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click the username and select My Credentials from the drop-down list.

    On the API Credentials page, view the project ID in the project list.

Figure 1 Viewing the project ID