Struggling with the ID format

James Beck

Hi all,

I'm quite new to the Wrike API, and I fundamentally do not understand the ID. It's explained everywhere that the ID (task and folder) is in the permalink and URL (some number like `1862560904`). But first of all, it doesn't work in the API call. For example, `folders/1862560904` returns a 400 error:

requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://www.wrike.com/api/v4/folders/1862560904

Secondly, that's not what is returned by the API; there, the ID looks like `IEABMHYCI5P7AYDW`. And when I use that ID, it works fine! For example, `folders/IEABMHYCI5P7AYDW`.

I don't understand how I am intended to use this. I would like to grab the timelogs from a particular folder as described here, but `/folders/{folderId}/timelogs` doesn't work with the `1862560904` ID format. And I don't know how to get the alphanumeric ID from the Wrike interface.

Help please!

 

ChoongSeng Chen

Hi @James Beck,

You need to use https://developers.wrike.com/api/v4/ids/ to convert the numeric id (v2 ID) into the v4 ID.

You can also use /tasks API with the permalink parameter (which contains the v2 ID) to get the task where the response payload will contains the v4 ID.

Hope it helps!