https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-can-I-get-the-token-to-use-the-REST-API-in-a-user-and/m-p/235857#M197670 <P>Hi <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/102226/chortels.html" nodeid="102226">@CarlosHS</A>,</P><P><BR /></P><P>inorder to perform CURL/REST APi with Nifi, you might need a access token ,</P><P>as per blog : </P><P>following command will get you the access token</P><PRE>curl 'https://nifi-host:port/nifi-api/access/token' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8' --data 'username=ldap-username&amp;password=ldap-password' --compressed —insecure</PRE><P>Later this token need to be reused for all operations like : </P><PRE>curl -k ’https://nifi-host:port/nifi-api/flow/process-groups/root/status' -H “Authorization: Bearer $token”</PRE><P><BR /></P><P>hope this helps</P><P><BR /></P> Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:05:05 GMT akhilsnaik 2019-07-19T11:05:05Z