Tailscale | Operate As Docs

Connect your client's Tailscale with a key they paste, and call its API through Operate As.

Website: tailscale.com
Connects by: Pasting a API access token
Category: Developer tools
Services: 1
Tools: 93

Service	Key	Base URL
Tailscale	`tailscale`	`https://api.tailscale.com/api/v2`

Connecting

Your client makes a API access token in their Tailscale settings and pastes it on their link. Operate As tries it with Tailscale before saving it, and stores it encrypted. See Services connected with an API key.

Check they're connected

curl https://api.operate.as/v1/me/clients \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

curl https://api.operate.as/v1/me/clients \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

Response

[
  {
    "id": "6f1c2a7e-...",
    "name": "Miller Dental",
    "services": [
      "tailscale"
    ]
  }
]

[  {    "id": "6f1c2a7e-...",    "name": "Miller Dental",    "services": [      "tailscale"    ]  }]

Permissions

What the client reads	Permission it asks for
Use the Tailscale key you paste, with only the access you gave that key	Chosen on the provider's screen

Tools

Install Tailscale's typed package for your language:

pip install operate-as-tailscale

pip install operate-as-tailscale

Run tailscale.accept_device_invite

curl -X POST https://api.operate.as/v1/actions/tailscale.accept_device_invite \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "clientId": "6f1c2a7e-...",
    "input": {}
  }'

curl -X POST https://api.operate.as/v1/actions/tailscale.accept_device_invite \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "clientId": "6f1c2a7e-...",    "input": {}  }'

Every input, with its JSON Schema: GET /v1/actions/tailscale.accept_device_invite

Response

{
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "…": "the service's own response"
  },
  "encoding": "json"
}

{  "status": 200,  "data": {    "…": "the service's own response"  },  "encoding": "json"}

Pass-through

Paths continue from https://api.tailscale.com/api/v2. Your Operate As key goes in Authorization; the client's access is added for you.

See Pass-through requests for the full request and response format.

Call any endpoint

curl "https://api.operate.as/v1/clients/6f1c2a7e-.../tailscale/tailnet/-/devices" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.operate.as/v1/clients/6f1c2a7e-.../tailscale/tailnet/-/devices" \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "…": "the service's own response"
  },
  "encoding": "json"
}

{  "status": 200,  "data": {    "…": "the service's own response"  },  "encoding": "json"}

When access ends

A key works until your client deletes it in Tailscale. They can paste a new one on the same link at any time, and your workflows carry on without changes.

See Keeping access alive and Removing access.

Calls answer, once the key is deleted

{
  "status": 401,
  "data": {
    "…": "the service's own error"
  },
  "encoding": "json"
}

{  "status": 401,  "data": {    "…": "the service's own error"  },  "encoding": "json"}