How to fetch ServiceNow Instance version using a REST API

[Shubhrajyoti]

Hi,

I need a REST end point using which I can fetch instance version of my ServiceNow instance.

Many people have posted a URL 

https://<instancename>.service-now.com/xmlstats.do

which gives XML output, however due to some reason this URL is not accepting user name/password while calling it from a script or curl call and authentication fails.

Anyways a REST api which is documented is better than calling an internal API which might change in future. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

[asifnoor]

Hi,

I don't think there is an API to give this information other than calling that mentioned URL.

What issue are you facing with curl and calling that URL. I tried with below command it's working for me

curl --user username:password  --header "Accept: application/json"  https://your-instance.service-now.com/stats.do

Replace above with your instance credentials and the instance URL and it should work.

Mark the answer as correct and helpful if this works.

[Shubhrajyoti]

The URL works: 

curl --user username:password  --header "Accept: application/json"  https://your-instance.service-now.com/stats.do

and gives output as HTML from which I don't want to extract information.

curl --user username:password  --header "Accept: application/json"  https://your-instance.service-now.com/xmlstats.do

This does not work unfortunately, it gives XML output and easily parsable.