Getting Started Guide
The purpose of this document is to outline the Application Programming Interface (API) available via Qcells.
The web services allow access to data saved in the monitoring server while keeping the data secured for authorized users.
This document provides information about the technical features of the API and describes each API with its parameter’s formats and other details.
The Qcells API allows other software applications to access its monitoring system database for data analysis purposes, fleet management, displaying system data in other applications, etc.
How to Sign Up
Please reach out to a customer support representative. And provide the following information:
Contact information for your company.
Company name
Email
Address
Primary point of contact
First and Last Name
Email
Please also provide a summary of the APIs you're interested in accessing or a description of your user cases.
Subscription Access
The following steps outline how to access the Subscription Key:
Step 1
Sign into the Developer Portal.
Step 2
Navigate to the Profile tab.
Step 3
Under Subscription Details, click the Show button to the left of the line that says "Primary Key."
Step 4
Copy the subscription key and paste it into the header of the API Access Code.
API Access
The following steps outline how to access the APIs detailed in this document. The APIs are accessed at the endpoint that can be obtained by contacting sales at qcells-us-devsupport@qcells.com using subject as “Request for token for Developer API Subscription”. Those auth tokens must first be obtained from the URL and then used in request headers of the API calls.
Step 1
Create a Qcells user account by following the steps in the How to Sign Up section of this guide.
Step 2
After creating the user account, log in and use the GUI to do a sanity check to ensure that requisite permissions to view details of the desired sites have been granted.
Step 3
Use the login credentials obtained in How to Sign Up section to obtain the auth tokens.