# Bare Metal Cloud › VPS › KVM Console API

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> 1 operation of the OVHcloud API. Calls carry `authorization: Bearer $OVH_TOKEN`; the EU host is shown, Canada and the United States answer on api.ca.ovhcloud.com and api.us.ovhcloud.com.

Page: https://developers.eu.ovhcloud.com/reference/bare-metal-cloud/vps/kvm-console/

OpenAPI v1: https://api.eu.ovhcloud.com/1.0/__schemas/developer-hub-navigation/bare-metal-cloud/vps/kvm-console.json?format=openapi3
OpenAPI v2: https://api.eu.ovhcloud.com/v2/__schemas/developer-hub-navigation/bare-metal-cloud/vps/kvm-console.json?format=openapi3

## Operations

- `POST /vps/{serviceName}/getConsoleUrl` — Generate and return a console access URL for this VPS

## Generate and return a console access URL for this VPS

`POST /1.0/vps/{serviceName}/getConsoleUrl`

Link: https://developers.eu.ovhcloud.com/reference/bare-metal-cloud/vps/kvm-console/#getVpsConsoleUrl

**Status:** Stable production version  
**IAM actions:** `vps:apiovh:getConsoleUrl`

Returns a URL that opens a console on the VPS.

### Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `serviceName` | path | string | yes | Service name |

### Responses

| Status | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 | string | successful operation |

```json
"string"
```

### Example

```bash
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.eu.ovhcloud.com/1.0/vps/{serviceName}/getConsoleUrl" \
  -H "accept: application/json" \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $OVH_TOKEN"
```

```python
'''
First, install the latest release of Python wrapper: $ pip install ovh
'''
import json
import ovh

# Instantiate an OVH Client.
# You can generate new credentials with full access to your account on
# the token creation page (https://api.ovh.com/createToken/index.cgi?GET=/*&PUT=/*&POST=/*&DELETE=/*)
client = ovh.Client(
	endpoint='ovh-eu',               # Endpoint of API OVH (List of available endpoints: https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh#2-configure-your-application)
	application_key='xxxxxxxxxx',    # Application Key
	application_secret='xxxxxxxxxx', # Application Secret
	consumer_key='xxxxxxxxxx',       # Consumer Key
)

result = client.post("/vps/{serviceName}/getConsoleUrl")

# Pretty print
print(json.dumps(result, indent=4))
```

```php
<?php
/**
 * First, download the latest release of PHP wrapper on github
 * And include this script into the folder with extracted files
 */
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use \Ovh\Api;

/**
 * Instantiate an OVH Client.
 * You can generate new credentials with full access to your account on
 * the token creation page (https://api.ovh.com/createToken/index.cgi?GET=/*&PUT=/*&POST=/*&DELETE=/*)
 */
$ovh = new Api('xxxxxxxxxx',  // Application Key
               'xxxxxxxxxx',  // Application Secret
               'ovh-eu',      // Endpoint of API OVH (List of available endpoints: https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh#2-configure-your-application)
               'xxxxxxxxxx'); // Consumer Key

$result = $ovh->post("/vps/{serviceName}/getConsoleUrl");

print_r($result);
?>
```