Building a API based Frontend

[jwhm]

Is it possible to build a custom front-end, using the cPanel API.

I have currently, a tightly integrated frontend with WHMCS(Built in Laravel), I wish to allow customers to create addon domains, email accounts etc without actually logging into cPanel directly, instead manipulating their cPanel account through my frontend, where I have full control.

Is this possible? I've seen cPanelExtended completes this task, however I am currently not using WHMCS templating AT ALL.

 

[cPanelTJ]

Yes, this is possible. The cPanel UI is completely driven by the API, so every front end function has an API to control it. If your custom frontend is on a remote server, then you'd need to create one or more cPanel API Tokens for each cPanel account upon creation to manage access.

You'll want to use cPanel UAPI and cPanel API 2, depending on the functionality you're trying to re-create.

 

[jwhm]

Okay,

Great, so I want to automate this process so that I don't have to be involved.

Would it be possible to automatically generate the API access for each user account upon creation through WHM/ WHMCS?

 

[cPRex]

How about a post-account creation hook that sets up the token? Is that what you're looking for?

Guide to Standardized Hooks - Hookable Events - Developer Documentation - cPanel Documentation

documentation.cpanel.net

 

[jwhm]

I can only access WHM/cPanel, the product I am using currently only asks for a WHM API key, and allows customers through my WHMCS installation to add email accounts, domains, etc to their cPanel, through that WHM key, how can I achieve that?

 

[cPRex]

Hmmm...what about this?

Create cPanel API token

This function creates a new API token with full access to all of a cPanel account's features. **Note:** The token **only** grants access to the features that the account has access to. For example, if you disable the [*File Manager*](https://go.cpanel.net/cpaneldocsFileManager) feature, the...

api.docs.cpanel.net

That's a user-level token that you can create through an API call.

 

[jwhm]

I have an existing user base of 300 plus customers, I couldn’t go back through them and generate individual API keys, I’d need to be able to do it either on the fly or through WHMs api key.

 

[cPRex]

I don't have any other suggestions on my end, but another user may let us know if they've run into a similar situation in the past.

 

[jwhm]

Can you not access a cPanel account through WHM?