Get global settings

Fetch global settings for a Zulip server.

GET {{ api_url }}/v1/server_settings

Note: this endpoint does not require any authentication at all, and you can use it to check:

If this is a Zulip server, and if so, what version of Zulip it's running.
What a Zulip client (e.g. a mobile app or zulip-terminal) needs to know in order to display a login prompt for the server (e.g. what authentication methods are available).

Usage examples

{start_tabs} {tab|python}

{generate_code_example(python)|/server_settings:get|example}

{tab|curl}

curl {{ api_url }}/v1/server_settings \
    -u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY

{end_tabs}

{generate_api_arguments_table|zulip.yaml|/server_settings:get}

authentication_methods: object in which each key-value pair in the object indicates whether the authentication method is enabled on this server.
zulip_version: the version of Zulip running in the server.
push_notifications_enabled: whether mobile/push notifications are enabled.
email_auth_enabled: setting for allowing users authenticate with an email-password combination.
require_email_format_usernames: whether usernames should have an email address format. This is important for clients to know whether the validate email address format in a login prompt; this value will be false if the server has LDAP authentication enabled with a username and password combination.
realm_uri: the organization's canonical URI.
realm_name: the organization's name (for display purposes).
realm_icon: the URI of the organization's logo as a square image, used for identifying the organization in small locations in the mobile and desktop apps.
realm_logo: the URI of the organization's logo as a horizontal format image (displayed in the top-left corner of the logged-in webapp).
realm_night_logo: the URI of the organization's logo in the night mode as a horizontal format image (dispalyed in the top-left corner of the logged-in webapp).
realm_description: HTML description of the organization, as configured by the organization profile.

Please note that not all of these attributes are guaranteed to appear in a response, for two reasons:

This endpoint has evolved over time, so responses from older Zulip servers might be missing some keys (in which case a client should assume the appropriate default).
If a /server_settings request is made to the root domain of a multi-subdomain server, like the root domain of zulipchat.com, the settings that are realm-specific are not known and thus not provided.

A typical successful JSON response for a single-organization server may look like:

{generate_code_example|/server_settings:get|fixture(200)}