CrownPanel API Overview

CrownPanel's API allows you to manage your VPS programmatically - including actions like power control, hostname changes, snapshot management, and more.

You can use the API with:

  • PHP scripts
  • CLI tools like curl
  • Monitoring systems
  • Custom control panels or dashboards

Ideal for automation, integration into management panels, or performing bulk operations across multiple VPS instances.


✅ Verify API Key

Use this API call to verify if your API Key is valid and functioning.

INFO

It's recommended to call this before other API requests to confirm your credentials are correct.

Key(s) and variable(s) required for this call

Key Variable Description Required
API_KEY YOUR_API_KEY Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual API key provided in "Account Settings", under the API section ✅ Yes
QUERY verify The action to verify your API key. ✅ Yes

Response examples

✅ If your API_KEY is valid, you would get the following output,

Success Output

{"query_status":"Success","query":"verify","query_result":"VALID"}

❌ If your API_KEY is invalid, you would get the following output,

Error Output

{"query_status":"Error","query":"verify","query_result":""}

CURL Example

curl -d "API_KEY=API-KEY-HERE&QUERY=verify" -X POST https://api.crownpanel.com

🌐 Other Language Examples

If you prefer to use another language or environment, here are examples for PHP, Python and Node.js:

PHP Example
<?php
$url = "https://api.crownpanel.com";

$post = [
'API_KEY' => 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'QUERY' => 'verify',
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
var_export($response);
?>
Python Example

âš™ī¸ Install (only once): Required to install necessary libraries before running the code.

pip install requests
import requests

url = "https://api.crownpanel.com"
data = {
    "API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "QUERY": "verify"
    }

response = requests.post(url, data=data)
print(response.text)
Node.js Example

âš™ī¸ Install (only once): Required to install necessary libraries before running the code.

npm install axios
const axios = require('axios');

const data = new URLSearchParams({
  API_KEY: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  QUERY: 'verify'
});

axios.post('https://api.crownpanel.com', data)
  .then(response => {
    console.log(response.data);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error('Error:', error);
  });

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