School
This API is used to provide access to school information such as users, academics, admissions, athletics, content, lists, and general school info.
GET
Directories results
Returns a collection of directory results the logged in user has access tosearch
is an optional search string to filter directory results.search_all
allows the search string to be used for all fields.
When set to false
, only searches name fields. defaults to true
.
Requires at least one of the following roles in the Education Management System:
- Parent
- Faculty
- Student
Request URL
Request parameters
Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
directory_id | Property is required | integer | Format - int32. |
search | string | ||
search_all | boolean |
Request headers
Header | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Bb-Api-Subscription-Key | Property is required | string | Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile. |
Authorization | Property is required | string | OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Blackbaud OAuth 2.0 Service. Supported grant types: Authorization code. |
Response 200 OK
Success
{
"count": 1,
"value": [
{
"user_id": 12345,
"first_name": "Tony",
"last_name": "Stark",
"email": "example@example.com",
"address_line1": "1 Blackbaud Way",
"address_line2": "",
"address_line3": "",
"city": "Bedford",
"state": "NH",
"zip": "03303",
"country": "USA",
"home_phone": "555-555-5555",
"cell_phone": "556-555-5555",
"home_phone2": "",
"has_relationships": true,
"prefix": "",
"preferred_name": "Iron Man",
"profile_photo": "//media.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/236/user/large_user_12345_1.jpg",
"middlename": "",
"maiden_name": "",
"suffix": "",
"grad_year": "2022",
"grade": "10",
"grade_display": "Tenth",
"department": "",
"department_display": "",
"spouse_id": 0,
"child_names": "",
"grade_numeric": 10,
"grade_numeric_display": "10",
"total_count": 1,
"deceased": false,
"student": true,
"preferred_address_id": 0,
"preferred_address_lat": 0.0,
"preferred_address_lng": 0.0,
"job_title": ""
}
]
}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"count": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The number of items in the collection",
"format": "int32",
"readOnly": true
},
"next_link": {
"type": "string",
"description": "For paginated responses, the URI for the next page of results",
"nullable": true
},
"value": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"user_id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The Id of the user",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"first_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The first name of the user",
"nullable": true
},
"last_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The last name of the user",
"nullable": true
},
"email": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The email address of the user",
"nullable": true
},
"address_line1": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The first line of the user address",
"nullable": true
},
"address_line2": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The second line of the user address",
"nullable": true
},
"address_line3": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The third line of the user address",
"nullable": true
},
"city": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The city the user lives in",
"nullable": true
},
"state": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The state the user lives in",
"nullable": true
},
"zip": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The zip code the user lives in",
"nullable": true
},
"country": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The country the user lives in",
"nullable": true
},
"home_phone": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's home phone number",
"nullable": true
},
"cell_phone": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's cell phone number",
"nullable": true
},
"office_phone": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's office phone number",
"nullable": true
},
"home_phone2": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's secondary home phone number",
"nullable": true
},
"has_relationships": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Returns true if the user has relationships",
"nullable": true
},
"prefix": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's prefix",
"nullable": true
},
"preferred_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's preferred name",
"nullable": true
},
"profile_photo": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's profile photo",
"nullable": true
},
"middlename": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's middle name",
"nullable": true
},
"maiden_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's maiden name",
"nullable": true
},
"suffix": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's suffix",
"nullable": true
},
"grad_year": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's graduation year",
"nullable": true
},
"grade": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's grade",
"nullable": true
},
"grade_display": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Grade display",
"nullable": true
},
"department": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The department the user belongs to",
"nullable": true
},
"department_display": {
"type": "string",
"description": "How the user's department should be displayed",
"nullable": true
},
"spouse_id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The Id of the user's spouse",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"child_names": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's children",
"nullable": true
},
"grade_numeric": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The numeric grade of the user",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"grade_numeric_display": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The way the numeric grade should be displayed",
"nullable": true
},
"total_count": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The total count of records",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"deceased": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Returns true if the user is deceased",
"nullable": true
},
"student": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Returns true if the user is a student",
"nullable": true
},
"preferred_address_id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The Id of the preferred address for the user",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"preferred_address_lat": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Preferred address latitude",
"format": "double",
"nullable": true
},
"preferred_address_lng": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Preferred address longitude",
"format": "double",
"nullable": true
},
"job_title": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user's job title",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Directory Result Model"
},
"description": "The set of items included in the response. This may be a subset of the items in the collection",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "A Collection"
}
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}?search={string}&search_all=true"
-H "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access token}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
// Request parameters
queryString["search"] = "{string}";
queryString["search_all"] = "true";
var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}");
builder.setParameter("search", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("search_all", "true");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
"search": "{string}",
"search_all": "true",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"search={string}",
@"search_all=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Bb-Api-Subscription-Key"];
[_request setValue:@"Bearer {access token}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the PEAR HTTP client from http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'search' => '{string}',
'search_all' => 'true',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'search': '{string}',
'search_all': 'true',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'search': '{string}',
'search_all': 'true',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/directories/{directory_id}')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'search' => '{string}',
'search_all' => 'true'
})
if query.length > 0
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Bb-Api-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {access token}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body
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