To open an IPED case (or multicase) in server mode, run java -jar lib/iped-webapi.jar with parameters below.

Arguments

• --host= Address to listen on
• --port= Port to listen on
• --sources= An URL or file with a JSON with a specific format: SourceJSON[]

Example:

java -jar iped-webapi.jar --host=127.0.0.1 --port=1234 --sources=multicases.json

Example of a json specifying two source cases:

[
  {"id":"src1", "path":"path\\to\\case1"},
  {"id":"src2", "path":"path\\to\\case2"}
]

API

Sources

• GET sources/ - List sources. A source is the directory of a previously processed image.
• POST sources/ - Add source. Format: SourceJSON
• GET sources/{sourceID} - Get source's properties

Search

• GET search?q={query}&sourceID={sourceID} - Search documents

Documents

• GET sources/{sourceID}/docs/{id} - Get document's properties
• GET sources/{sourceID}/docs/{id}/content - Get document's raw content
• GET sources/{sourceID}/docs/{id}/text - Get document's content converted as text
• GET sources/{sourceID}/docs/{id}/thumb - Get document's thumbnail

Bookmarks

• GET bookmarks - List bookmarks
• GET bookmarks/{bookmark} - List bookmark documents
• PUT bookmarks/{bookmark}/add - Add documents to bookmark. Format: DocIDJSON[]
• PUT bookmarks/{bookmark}/remove - Remove documents to bookmark. Format: DocIDJSON[]
• POST bookmarks/{bookmark} - Create bookmark
• DELETE bookmarks/{bookmark} - Delete bookmark
• PUT bookmarks/{old}/rename/{new} - Rename bookmark

Categories

• GET categories - List categories

Selection

• GET selection - List selected documents
• PUT selection/add - Add documents to selection. Format: DocIDJSON[]
• DELETE selection/remove - Remove documents from selection. Format: DocIDJSON[]

Formats

SourceJSON

• {id, path}

SourceJSON[]

• [{id,path},...]

DocIDJSON[]

• [{source, id}, ...]