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Practical, real-world recipes for common FOSSA API tasks.
1 min readUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Overview
Practical, real-world recipes for accomplishing common tasks with the FOSSA API.
Note
These examples assume you have a valid FOSSA API token. See Authentication for details.
- Managing issues: query, filter, bulk-ignore, and manage auto-ignore rules across licensing, security, and quality issues.
- Managing users and teams: create users, manage team membership, and assign projects to teams.
- Initiating a binary scan: upload a binary or archive and start a decomposition scan, then poll for completion.
- Generating reports: trigger org-wide audit and issue CSV reports via the API.
- Creating Jira tickets: export FOSSA issues to Jira without the UI.
- Downloading attribution reports: download licensing reports in several formats.
- Modifying release groups: add and update projects in a release group.
- Retrieving the latest revision: get the latest revision for each branch of a project.
- Rotating access tokens: manage and rotate tokens securely.
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