API Endpoints

Authentication/Registering Users

When you want a user to launch into a TryHackMe room, you will send a POST request to the URL below. The apiKey parameter is the API key required to authenticate the request. The userId parameter is a unique string used to represent your user and the roomCode is the code of the room that the user is trying to access. A successful request will return a 200 status code with a URL:

• If the user has not authenticated to TryHackMe through this API endpoint, the URL will point to a unique sign up page that redirects a user to a room after successful registration
• If that user has authenticated to TryHackMe through this API endpoint, the URL will automatically enter a user into a room

POST https://tryhackme.com/external/api/authenticate

The request body parameters are

{

apiKey: String,

userId: String,

roomCode: String

}

The headers & data encoding are

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

The expected successful response is

{

url: String

}

Retrieve User Progress

This endpoint returns users progress in the specified room. The {ROOM-CODE} parameter is the room code you would like to receive data from.

GET https://tryhackme.com/external/api/getgraphdata/{ROOM-CODE}

The API key needs to be provided inside the THM-API-KEY header as follows

THM-API-KEY: {API-KEY}

The expected successful response is

[

{

"name": "String",

"data": [

"",

0

],

"taskData": [

{

"taskNo": Integer,

"questionNo": Integer,

"correct": Boolean,

"score": Integer,

"timeCorrect": "ISO8601 UTC Timestamp"

},

],

"totalScore": Integer,

"rankNo": Integer,

"avatar": String,

"level": Integer

}

]

Data will only show for users that are in the room, and that have been created through the /api/external/authenticate endpoint. If you've generated a user through this endpoint, they'll also need to sign up and join the room.

Retrieving Users

This endpoint is used to retrieve all the users that have signed up using the API.

GET https://tryhackme.com/external/api/users

The API key needs to be provided inside the THM-API-KEY header as follows

THM-API-KEY: {API-KEY}

The expected successful response is as follows

{

"status": true,

"users": [

{

"username": String,

"email": String,

"dateSignedUp": ISO8601 UTC Datetime

}

]

}

Remove Users From Room

This endpoint is used to remove a user from a room.

POST https://tryhackme.com/external/api/leaveRoom

The request body parameters are

{

apiKey: String,

userId: String,

roomCode: String

}

The headers & data encoding are

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

The expected successful response is as follows

{}

Retrieve Rooms

This endpoint is used to retrieve details of public and the user's private rooms on the platform. The users field is only returned for a room that owned/managed by the API user.

GET https://tryhackme.com/external/api/rooms

The API key needs to be provided inside the THM-API-KEY header as follows

THM-API-KEY: {API-KEY}

The expected successful response is as follows

[

{

"code": String,

"title": String,

"description": String

'public': Boolean

'users': [String]

},

]

Check If Room Exists

This endpoint is used to check if a room exists on the platform using the {ROOM-CODE} as a URL parameter..

GET https://tryhackme.com/external/api/roomExists/{ROOM-CODE}

The API key needs to be provided inside the THM-API-KEY header as follows

THM-API-KEY: {API-KEY}

The expected successful response is as follows

{

"roomExists": Boolean

}

Room Questions

This endpoint is used to retrieve questions associated with a {ROOM-CODE}. This endpoint retrieves questions associated with public rooms and private rooms owned by the API user.

GET https://tryhackme.com/external/api/questions/{ROOM-CODE}

The API key needs to be provided inside the THM-API-KEY header as follows

THM-API-KEY: {API-KEY}

The expected successful response is as follows

{

"questions": [

{

"taskNo": Integer,

"infoList": [

{

"questionNo": Integer,

"question": String,

"answer": String,

"hint": String,

"extraPoints": Integer

}

]

}

}

Status Codes & Error Handling

A successful request to any of these endpoints will always return a 200 OK response.

A request to an endpoint that does not return a 200 OK response will contain a message parameter attached to the response as follows

{

message: "API Key is invalid or has expired."

}