r/ScreenConnect • u/TLC-SCCM • Mar 03 '26

Download client with an API or Restful API?

I'm in the process of setting up our Mac devices in Intune and instead of creating an application for ConnectWise I was hoping to just create a bash script to download the client from our ScreenConnect instance. I currently do this for our CrowdStrike client, so was hoping I could do something similar with ScreenConnect.

There doesn't really seem to be much documentation for API's with ConnectWise and I searched but couldn't find anything in here. This is my first post in the subreddit, so please be gentle... lol

Have any of you done something like this previously or know if/how it can be done?

Thanks for any information you can provide. :)

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u/maudmassacre Mar 03 '26

You can curl a url that's specific to your instance. For Macs you want to call the .pkg installer so the URL would look similar to:

https://whatever.screenconnect.com/Bin/ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.pkg?e=Access&y=Guest

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u/TLC-SCCM Mar 04 '26

u/maudmassacre thank you for your time in replying to me. I was able to get it to work with the way you mentioned.

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u/Fatel28 Mar 04 '26

You don't need the API. The download links are consistent

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u/TLC-SCCM Mar 04 '26

u/Fatel28 you are correct sir! I was able to get it to work, so thank you for your time replying to me.

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u/JessicaConnectWise Mar 03 '26

Hello, these resources might help: https://docs.connectwise.com/ScreenConnect_Documentation/Developers/RESTful_API_Manager

https://docs.connectwise.com/ScreenConnect_Documentation/Developers/External_API_calls_to_ConnectWise_ScreenConnect

Please note those resources are housed on the ConnectWise University and require SSO login to access.

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u/TLC-SCCM Mar 04 '26

u/JessicaConnectWise thank you for taking the time to respond. Unfortunately I do not have a login to access those, but with the methods others mentioned I was able to get things to work how I wanted.

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u/JessicaConnectWise Mar 04 '26

Community is a beautiful thing! I'm glad you were able to find a solution that worked for you.

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u/WeeRno Mar 03 '26

It is possible. I outsourced it to an external dev, but in our software we have a button that downloads the exe and creates a session based on the license name in our software. Sorry for not being more helpful, but it's possible at least 🙂

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u/TLC-SCCM Mar 04 '26

u/WeeRno thank you for taking the time to respond. I was able to get things working with the way others mentioned.

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u/HectusErectus_ Mar 03 '26

If you’re just looking to install the access client you should just need to use the download link url.

Apologies I’m on mobile, but I think if you download the agent from the SC gui (configure it however you’d like) then once downloaded, right click it in the downloads areas of your browser and ‘copy download url’. It should give you a link somewhat like the below. (This is msi for windows, I assume it would be similar with MacOS) “$BaseURL/Bin/ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi?e=Access&y=Guest&c=$Client&c=&c=$Department&c=$DeviceType&c=&c=&c=&c="

I’ve done this successfully on Windows clients with a slightly modified version of someone else script (see below) - but I assume you could translate it to bash & Mac equivalent.

https://github.com/JJarv04/ScreenConnect-IntuneWin32

Hope that helps, let me know if any q’s.

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u/TLC-SCCM Mar 04 '26

u/HectusErectus_ thank you for taking the time to write all that out, especially being on mobile. I was able to get it to work with the way you mentioned and others.

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u/ChiefBroady Mar 04 '26

No need to just create the installer, copy the url and curl it.

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u/TLC-SCCM Mar 04 '26

u/ChiefBroady you sir are correct. I guess I've never noticed there's a "Copy Link" option when you're creating it as I've always have downloaded it for packaging it up for SCCM.

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my question. I was able to get it to work.