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# Retrieve a website's manual connection credentials

GET https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/{site_id}/connection/manual

Starts the manual connection of a website: returns the public identifier of its connection credentials and a short-lived, single-use link that reveals the secret. Use it when you prefer to enter the credentials in the Modular Connector plugin by hand. Follow the link once, as described in "Reveal a website's manual connection secret", to read the secret.

Handing out credentials counts as a change to the website's connection, so a read-only token is refused even though this request is a GET. Your role must be one of those that connect websites (owner, administrator and collaborator, with access to the website); any other member, such as a viewer, gets 404.

**Errors**
- **503**: the store that keeps the single-use link is unavailable. Retry in a moment.

Reference: https://api.docs.modulards.com/modular-ds-public-api/websites/connection/retrieve-a-website-s-manual-connection-credentials

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Personal access token created in the Modular DS dashboard; read-only tokens can only call GET endpoints.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `site_id` (string, required)

## Response

### 200

200 - Manual connection credentials

- `jsonapi` (ApiPublicV1SitesSiteIdConnectionManualGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaJsonapi, optional)
- `meta` (ApiPublicV1SitesSiteIdConnectionManualGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaMeta, optional)

## Types

### ApiPublicV1SitesSiteIdConnectionManualGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaJsonapi

- `version` (string, optional)

### ApiPublicV1SitesSiteIdConnectionManualGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaMeta

- `client_id` (string, optional) — Public identifier of the website's connection credentials.
- `expires_at` (datetime, optional) — When the reveal URL stops working.
- `reveal_url` (string, optional) — Signed, single-use URL that reveals the secret; follow it exactly as returned.

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "jsonapi": {
    "version": "1.1"
  },
  "meta": {
    "client_id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-4789-a012-b3c4d5e6f789",
    "expires_at": "2026-09-17T10:15:00.000000Z",
    "reveal_url": "https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/123/connection/manual/reveal?user=456&nonce=5f3d2a1b9c8e7f60&origin=public&expires=1758114000&signature=8f14e45fceea167a5a36dedd4bea2543a2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6e"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python 200 - Manual connection credentials
import requests

url = "https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/site_id/connection/manual"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript 200 - Manual connection credentials
const url = 'https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/site_id/connection/manual';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go 200 - Manual connection credentials
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/site_id/connection/manual"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby 200 - Manual connection credentials
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/site_id/connection/manual")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java 200 - Manual connection credentials
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/site_id/connection/manual")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php 200 - Manual connection credentials
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/site_id/connection/manual', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp 200 - Manual connection credentials
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/site_id/connection/manual");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift 200 - Manual connection credentials
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/sites/site_id/connection/manual")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```