Pocketbase cURL examples

Pocketbase provides an API and SDK for its database. However, the API itself is only documented from the SDK, so I created a small collection of examples for my own documentation. Adjust accordingly

Login with password

To login with password you simply POST to the users collection. The output will contain the token

curl 'https://<pocketbase url>/api/collections/users/auth-with-password' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"identity":"<username>","password":"<password>"}' \
  --insecure -kv

Sample response:

{
	"record": {
		"avatar": "",
		"collectionId": "_pb_users_auth_",
		"collectionName": "users",
		"created": "2025-07-16 22:55:04.240Z",
		"email": "<email>",
		"emailVisibility": false,
		"id": "xabrgho2lgpfk4f",
		"name": "<name>",
		"updated": "2025-07-16 22:55:04.240Z",
		"verified": false
	},
	"token": "eyJhbGdapc31iOsdiJ5IpsdfUzI1NibIsInRdoew5ctCyI6IkpXVloaCJ9.eyJjb2xsZaiaF8iLCJleHAiOjEasdfh3NTM3MTIalskjflkasjf1904NTMsImlkIjoieGFicmdobzJsZ3BmazRmIiwicmVmcmVzaGFibGUiOnsdfoijOiJhdXRoIn0.bHZ6kzkhnmu_Q66s2KCluoCRKdPg"
}

Get the token directly

Use jq!

curl 'https://<pocketbase url>/api/collections/users/auth-with-password' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"identity":"<username>","password":"<password>"}' \
  --insecure -kv | jq -r .token

Create record

Let's say you have a collection called 'event' with the following fields:

Optional id String	Plain text value. It is autogenerated if not set.
Optional type String	Plain text value.
Optional data String	JSON array or object.
Optional sf_account_id String	Plain text value.
Optional user String	Relation record id.
Optional note String	Plain text value.

cURL command

curl -kv 'https://<pocketbase url>/api/collections/event/records' \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
       -H 'authorization: <token>' \
       --data-raw '{
         "type": "health",
           "data": "{\"message\": \"hello\"}",
           "sf_account_id": "test",
           "user": "<user id>",
           "note": "test"
       }'