Use Zenkit from the command-line and scripts. Read and update workspaces, lists, items, fields, and webhooks; and perform backups to json.

Install with cargo install zenkit-cli. The program name is zk (usually installed to $HOME/.cargo/bin). Instructions for installing cargo are here

Set the environment variable ZENKIT_API_TOKEN to your api token, which you can obtain (even for the free-tier plan) from your Zenkit account.

Optional: To avoid re-typing -w WORKSPACE for every command for the most-used workspace, set the environment variable ZENKIT_WORKSPACE to the workspace name. The -w WORKSPACE option always overrides ZENKIT_WORKSPACE.

Use zk -h for help.

For the commands below, the parameter values for workspace, list, or field may be an object's id (int), uuid, or display name. Values containing spaces or symbols should be quoted.

All commands except workspaces require a -w workspace parameter or require the environment variable ZENKIT_WORKSPACE to contain a workspace name. The -w option is omitted below for brevity.

• Show help
  zk -h/--help

• Workspace commands

  • Show all workspaces and lists (accessible by your user)
    zk workspaces
    Output columns (tab-separated):

    • W/L: workspace or list
    • id: object id (positive int)
    • uuid: object uuid
    • name: object name

  • Show users in workspace
    zk users
    Output columns (tab-separated):

    • id
    • uuid
    • name

  • Show lists in workspace
    zk lists
    Output columns (tab-separated):

    • id
    • uuid
    • name

• List commands

  • Show items in a list
    zk items -l list
    Output columns (tab-separated):
    • id
    • uuid
    • name

• List field/schema commands

  • Show fields for a list
    zk fields -l list
    Output columns (tab-separated):

    • id
    • uuid
    • name

  • Show choice values for a field
    zk choices -l list -f field
    Output columns (tab-separated):

    • id
    • name

  • Describe field
    zk field -l list -f field
    Output format: Text object dump

• Item commands

  • Show item detail
    zk item -l list -i item_num
    Output format: object dump (text)

  • Set field value
    zk set -l list -i item_num -f field [-t text] [-v value | -F file]
    

    The value can be specified on the command-line (-v) or from a file (-F).

    For a field of type person, the value may be either the person's uuid or their display name (case-insensitive). For a field of type choice (category), the value may be the choice id, uuid, or display name(case-sensitive). For a field of type reference, the value must be the uuid of the related object.

  • Create item
    zk create -l list -F field=value -F field=value ...jj
    

    Values may be of the format described above for "Set field value". Field names may be id, uuid, or display name (case-sensitive).

  • Add comment to an item
    zk comment -l list -i item -c comment

• Webhooks

  • Add a webhook
    zk webhook --type triggger-type --url url [ OPTIONS ]

  • Delete webhook
    zk delete-webhook --webhook webhook

  • List webhooks
    zk list-webhooks

• Backup

  • Backup lists and field definitions to json files
    zk backup -o output_dir [ -l list ] [ --include-archived ]
    If no list is specified, all lists in the workspace are backed up. The optional flag '--include-archived' adds archived items to the list backup.