Create Embed URL

Version 4.0.24.20 (latest)

Create an Embed URL

Creates an embed URL that runs as the Looker user making this API call. ("Embed as me") This embed URL can then be used to instantiate a Looker embed session in a "Powered by Looker" (PBL) web application.

This is similar to Private Embedding (https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/r/admin/embed/private-embed). Instead of logging into the Web UI to authenticate, the user has already authenticated against the API to be able to make this call. However, unlike Private Embed where the user has access to any other part of the Looker UI, the embed web session created by requesting the EmbedUrlResponse.url in a browser only has access to content visible under the /embed context.

An embed URL can only be used once, and must be used within 5 minutes of being created. After it has been used to request a page from the Looker server, the URL is invalid. Future requests using the same URL will fail. This is to prevent 'replay attacks'.

The target_url property must be a complete URL of a Looker Embedded UI page - scheme, hostname, path starting with "/embed" and query params. To load a dashboard with id 56 and with a filter of Date=1 years, the looker Embed URL would look like https://myname.looker.com/embed/dashboards/56?Date=1%20years. The best way to obtain this target_url is to navigate to the desired Looker page in your web browser, copy the URL shown in the browser address bar, insert "/embed" after the host/port, and paste it into the target_url property as a quoted string value in this API request.

Security Note

Protect this signed URL as you would an access token or password credentials - do not write it to disk, do not pass it to a third party, and only pass it through a secure HTTPS encrypted transport.

Calls to this endpoint require Embedding to be enabled

Request

POST /embed/token_url/me
Datatype
Description
Request
HTTP Request
body
HTTP Body
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body
Embed parameters
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target_url
string
The complete URL of the Looker UI page to display in the embed context. For example, to display the dashboard with id 34, `target_url` would look like: `https://mycompany.looker.com:9999/dashboards/34`. `target_uri` MUST contain a scheme (HTTPS), domain name, and URL path. Port must be included if it is required to reach the Looker server from browser clients. If the Looker instance is behind a load balancer or other proxy, `target_uri` must be the public-facing domain name and port required to reach the Looker instance, not the actual internal network machine name of the Looker instance.
session_length
integer
Number of seconds the signed embed session will be valid after the embed session is started. Defaults to 300 seconds. Maximum session length accepted is 2592000 seconds (30 days).
force_logout_login
boolean
When true, the embed session will purge any residual Looker login state (such as in browser cookies) before creating a new login state with the given embed user info. Defaults to true.

Response

200: Embed URL

Datatype
Description
(object)
url
string
The embed URL. Any modification to this string will make the URL unusable.

400: Bad Request

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Description
(object)
message
string
Error details
documentation_url
string
Documentation link

404: Not Found

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Description
(object)
message
string
Error details
documentation_url
string
Documentation link

409: Resource Already Exists

Datatype
Description
(object)
message
string
Error details
documentation_url
string
Documentation link

422: Validation Error

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Description
(object)
message
string
Error details
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field
string
Field with error
code
string
Error code
message
string
Error info message
documentation_url
string
Documentation link
documentation_url
string
Documentation link

429: Too Many Requests

Datatype
Description
(object)
message
string
Error details
documentation_url
string
Documentation link