SailPoint Examples
Worked examples of common SailPoint API calls.
Practical examples: fetch an identity, submit an access request, list a certification, and search entitlements, the calls you will make most.
- Fetch and search identities
- Submit access requests
- Read certifications and campaigns
- Search entitlements and roles
The fastest way to learn the SailPoint API is by working through the calls you will actually make most: fetching and searching identities, submitting access requests, and reading certification and audit data. Each is a straightforward authenticated REST call, usually with a filter.
Search for an identity
GET /v3/public-identities?filters=alias eq "jdoe"
Authorization: Bearer <token>Submit an access request
POST /v3/access-requests
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Content-Type: application/json
{
"requestedFor": ["<identityId>"],
"requestType": "GRANT_ACCESS",
"requestedItems": [{ "type": "ACCESS_PROFILE", "id": "<id>" }]
}Read certification data
Pull campaign and certification detail to build reporting or feed downstream systems, combining filtering to scope the data and pagination to retrieve it in full.
Turn these into robust code
Start from these patterns and add the production essentials: obtain and refresh an OAuth token, filter server-side, paginate large results, and back off on 429/5xx. The official SDKs bundle most of this for you.
Common pitfalls
- Copying examples without adding pagination for bulk reads.
- Hard-coding IDs instead of looking them up.
- Skipping error handling that production needs.