In this quick guide, we will cover the following steps:
- Contact the Support team to obtain your Classic BriteCore API key.
- Make a test request to BriteAPI.
- Evaluate the response.
We will also review status and error codes in BriteCore.
Step 1: Contact the Support team to obtain your Classic BriteCore API key
- Select Help at the top-right corner of the screen.
- Select the Submit a Support Ticket link.
- Complete the necessary fields in the Submit a Support Ticket dialog box, and then select Send Ticket.

If you do not have access to the link and are going through an active implementation, please contact your Consulting Project Manager. Otherwise, you can submit a Zendesk ticket to contact support.
Step 2: Make a request using your API key
To use your API key, pass it along to every call in the body of the request. For example:
curl --location --request POST '/api/v2/utils/get_release_info' \
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Step 3: Evaluate the response
A successful JSON response from the above request: A successful request will return status code 200.
{
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Overview of status and error codes
BriteCore APIs uses standard HTTP response codes to indicate the success or failure of an API request and conforms to JSON:API standard error codes. The HTTPS status error codes include:
- 200: The API request was successfully processed.
- 300: The API request was successfully processed.
- 400: Indicates a client-side error such as a bad request, unauthorized request, resource not found, etc.
- 500: Internal server error.
In addition, as part of our error handling protocol, BriteCore APIs return a helpful error message if arguments aren’t provided, records aren’t found, processes don’t complete, etc.