Trello API: getting boards / lists / cards information

Question

Using Trello API: - I\'ve been able to get all the cards that are assigned to a Trello user - I\'ve been able to get all the boards that are assigned to an Organization

Answer 1

Here is a quick and dirty bash script using curl and jq to get any given Board's ID or List's Id:

key="<your-key>"
token="<your-token>"
trelloUsername="<you-trello-username>"
boardName="<board-name>"
listName="<list-name>"

boardID=$(curl -s --request GET --url "https://api.trello.com/1/members/$trelloUsername/boards?key=$key&token=$token" --header 'Accept: application/json' | jq -r ".[] | select(.name == \"$boardName\").id")
echo "boardID: ${boardID}"
listID=$(curl -s --request GET --url "https://api.trello.com/1/boards/$boardID/lists?key=$key&token=$token" | jq -r ".[] | select(.name == \"$listName\").id")
echo "listID: ${listID}"

Example output:

boardID: 5eab513c719d2d681bafce0e
listID: 5eab519e66dd4272gb720e22

Answer 2

to get all your boards use

Trello.get("/members/me/boards")

worked for me using client.js

Answer 3

For the users who want the easiest way to access the id of a list :

Use the ".json" hack !

add ".json" at the end of your board URL to display the same output of the API query for that board, in your browser ! (no other tool needed, no hassle dealing with authentication).

For instance, if the URL of your board is :

https://trello.com/b/EI6aGV1d/blahblah

point your browser to

https://trello.com/b/EI6aGV1d/blahblah.json

And you will obtain something like

{
  "id": "5a69a1935e732f529ef0ad8e",
  "name": "blahblah",
  "desc": "",
  "descData": null,
  "closed": false,
  [...]
    "cards": [
      {
          "id": "5b2776eba95348dd45f6b745",
          "idMemberCreator": "58ef2cd98728a111e6fbd8d3",
          "data": {
            "list": {
              "name": "Bla blah blah blah blah",
              "id": "5a69a1b82f62a7af027d0378"
            },
            "board": {
            [...]

Where you can just search for the name of your list to easily find its id next to it.

tip: use a json viewer extension to make your browser display a nice json. Personnally I use https://github.com/tulios/json-viewer/tree/0.18.0 but I guess there are a lot of good alternatives out there.

Answer 4

You can do it by calling

GET /1/organizations/[idOrg]/boards?lists=all

It is here: https://developers.trello.com/advanced-reference/organization#get-1-organizations-idorg-or-name-boards

Look at the arguments.

There are several filters and fields. You can customize it.

Answer 5

I don't believe there is a method in the Trello API to do this, so you'll have to get a list of boards for a user or organization:

GET /1/members/[idMember or username]/boards

Which returns (truncated to show just the parts we care about):

[{ "id": "4eea4ffc91e31d1746000046", "name": "Example Board", "desc": "This board is used in the API examples", ... "shortUrl": "https://trello.com/b/OXiBYZoj" }, { "id": "4ee7e707e582acdec800051a", "name": "Public Board", "desc": "A board that everyone can see", ... "shortUrl": "https://trello.com/b/IwLRbh3F" }]

Then get the lists for each board:

GET /1/boards/[board_id]/lists

Which returns (truncated to only show the list id and name:

[{ "id": "4eea4ffc91e31d174600004a", "name": "To Do Soon", ... }, { "id": "4eea4ffc91e31d174600004b", "name": "Doing", ... }, { "id": "4eea4ffc91e31d174600004c", "name": "Done", ... }]

And go through this response for each board to build a list of all the lists a user or organization has.