curl --request POST \
--url https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'api_key: <api-key>' \
--data '
{
"command": "npm install",
"timeout_ms": 300000
}
'import requests
url = "https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command"
payload = {
"command": "npm install",
"timeout_ms": 300000
}
headers = {
"api_key": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {api_key: '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({command: 'npm install', timeout_ms: 300000})
};
fetch('https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'command' => 'npm install',
'timeout_ms' => 300000
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json",
"api_key: <api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"command\": \"npm install\",\n \"timeout_ms\": 300000\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("api_key", "<api-key>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command")
.header("api_key", "<api-key>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"command\": \"npm install\",\n \"timeout_ms\": 300000\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["api_key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"command\": \"npm install\",\n \"timeout_ms\": 300000\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"stdout": "added 12 packages in 3s\n",
"stderr": "",
"exit_code": 0,
"truncated": false,
"duration_ms": 3120
}{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [
"<string>"
],
"msg": "<string>",
"type": "<string>"
}
]
}Run a sandbox command
Runs a shell command inside the app’s sandbox with bash and returns its output.
Every sandbox-bridge endpoint runs against the app’s live sandbox, the same filesystem the Base44 builder edits, so a change here is visible in the builder immediately.
A command that exits non-zero still answers 200. Read exit_code to tell a failed command from a failed request, and expect stderr to carry output on success too, since many tools log there.
Each call starts in the app root unless you set cwd, and cd does not carry over between calls, so chain directory changes inside one command instead. The default timeout is 120000 ms and the maximum is 600000 ms; a command that outruns its timeout answers 504. Output is capped at 1 MB per stream, and truncated tells you when that happened.
This endpoint is limited to 30 requests per minute per app, its own budget rather than one shared with the other sandbox-bridge endpoints.
sandbox:write scope.extra_data.code alongside the human-readable message. Branch on the code rather than on the message text or the status.curl --request POST \
--url https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'api_key: <api-key>' \
--data '
{
"command": "npm install",
"timeout_ms": 300000
}
'import requests
url = "https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command"
payload = {
"command": "npm install",
"timeout_ms": 300000
}
headers = {
"api_key": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {api_key: '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({command: 'npm install', timeout_ms: 300000})
};
fetch('https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'command' => 'npm install',
'timeout_ms' => 300000
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json",
"api_key: <api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"command\": \"npm install\",\n \"timeout_ms\": 300000\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("api_key", "<api-key>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command")
.header("api_key", "<api-key>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"command\": \"npm install\",\n \"timeout_ms\": 300000\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/sandbox-bridge/run_command")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["api_key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"command\": \"npm install\",\n \"timeout_ms\": 300000\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"stdout": "added 12 packages in 3s\n",
"stderr": "",
"exit_code": 0,
"truncated": false,
"duration_ms": 3120
}{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [
"<string>"
],
"msg": "<string>",
"type": "<string>"
}
]
}Authorizations
Personal API key.
Path Parameters
ID of the app whose sandbox to operate on.
Body
Shell command to execute via bash inside the sandbox.
1 - 100000Working dir relative to the app root. cd does not persist across calls — use this or chain commands.
Timeout in milliseconds (default 120000, max 600000).
1 <= x <= 600000Response
The command ran. Read exit_code for its result.
What a command left behind.
Everything the command wrote to standard output.
"added 12 packages in 3s\n"
Everything the command wrote to standard error. Populated on success too, since many tools log there.
""
The command's exit status. 0 means success. A non-zero status is still a 200 from this endpoint: the command ran and failed, which is not a request error.
0
true when the output hit the 1 MB cap and was cut short. stdout and stderr are each capped, and either one hitting it sets this.
false
How long the command took, in milliseconds.
3120
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