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Obtaining a Project ID

Scenario

A project ID is required for some URLs when an API is called. Obtain the required project ID using either of the following methods:

Obtaining a Project ID by Calling an API

The API used to obtain a project ID is GET https://{Endpoint}/v3/projects. {Endpoint} is the IAM endpoint and can be obtained from .

In the following example, id indicates the project ID.

{
    "projects": [
        {
            "domain_id": "65382450e8f64ac0870cd180d14e684b",
            "is_domain": false,
            "parent_id": "65382450e8f64ac0870cd180d14e684b",
            "name": "xxxxxxxx",
            "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"
    }
}

Obtaining a Project ID from the Console

A project ID is required for some URLs when an API is called. To obtain a project ID, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to the management console.
  1. Obtain the token.

    For details, see Token-based Authentication.

  2. Obtain the project ID.

    The API for obtaining the project ID is GET https://iam.eu-west-0.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/projects.

    Add X-Auth-Token to the request header, and set the value of X-Auth-Token to the token obtained in the preceding step.

    The following is an example response. id indicates the project ID.

    {
    "links": {},
    "projects": [
        {
            "is_domain": ,
            "description": "",
            "links": {},
            "enabled": true,
            "id": "",   //Project ID
            "parent_id": "",
            "domain_id": "",
            "name": ""
        },
        ...
   ]
}
Parent topic: Appendix