pfSense (pfsense)

pfSense is an open-source firewall and router operating system based on FreeBSD, developed and maintained by Netgate, providing stateful firewall, routing, VPN (IPsec, OpenVPN, WireGuard), captive portal, traffic shaping, and IDS/IPS capabilities for home and enterprise networks. It is available as pfSense Community Edition (CE) and pfSense Plus, both managed via a web UI. The unofficial pfSense-pkg-RESTAPI package adds a REST and GraphQL API with 200+ endpoints under /api/v2 for automating firewall management, authenticated via local users, API keys, or JWT.

APIs.json: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pfsense/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

Scope

• Type: Index

Tags

• Firewall
• Network Security
• Router
• VPN
• Open Source
• FreeBSD
• Netgate

Timestamps

• Created: 2026-05-11
• Modified: 2026-05-11

APIs

pfSense REST API (pfSense-pkg-RESTAPI)

Community-maintained REST and GraphQL API package for pfSense CE and pfSense Plus exposing 200+ endpoints under /api/v2 for firewall, interface, service, user, and system management. Authentication supports local user credentials, API keys, and JWT bearer tokens; the base URL is the pfSense instance's own hostname.

• Human URL: https://pfrest.org/
• Base URL: https://pfsense.local/api/v2

Tags

• Firewall API
• Network Automation
• REST
• GraphQL

Properties

• Documentation
• A P I Documentation
• GitHub Repository
• Contributing
• Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
• Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0

Common Properties

• Website
• Documentation
• Pricing
• Download
• GitHub Organization
• Vendor

Maintainers

FN: Kin Lane Email: [email protected]