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Clash API

Structure

{
  "external_controller": "127.0.0.1:9090",
  "external_ui": "",
  "external_ui_download_url": "",
  "external_ui_download_detour": "",
  "secret": "",
  "default_mode": "",
  "access_control_allow_origin": [],
  "access_control_allow_private_network": false,

  // Deprecated

  "store_mode": false,
  "store_selected": false,
  "store_fakeip": false,
  "cache_file": "",
  "cache_id": ""
}

Since sing-box 1.10.0

{
  "external_controller": "127.0.0.1:9090",
  "access_control_allow_origin": [
    "http://127.0.0.1",
    "http://yacd.haishan.me"
  ],
  "access_control_allow_private_network": true
}

Since sing-box 1.10.0

{
  "external_controller": "0.0.0.0:9090",
  "external_ui": "dashboard"
  // external_ui_download_detour: "direct"
}

You can ignore the JSON Array [] tag when the content is only one item

Fields

external_controller

RESTful web API listening address. Clash API will be disabled if empty.

external_ui

A relative path to the configuration directory or an absolute path to a directory in which you put some static web resource. sing-box will then serve it at http://{{external-controller}}/ui.

external_ui_download_url

ZIP download URL for the external UI, will be used if the specified external_ui directory is empty.

https://github.com/MetaCubeX/Yacd-meta/archive/gh-pages.zip will be used if empty.

external_ui_download_detour

The tag of the outbound to download the external UI.

Default outbound will be used if empty.

secret

Secret for the RESTful API (optional) Authenticate by spedifying HTTP header Authorization: Bearer ${secret} ALWAYS set a secret if RESTful API is listening on 0.0.0.0

default_mode

Default mode in clash, Rule will be used if empty.

This setting has no direct effect, but can be used in routing and DNS rules via the clash_mode rule item.

access_control_allow_origin

Since sing-box 1.10.0

CORS allowed origins, * will be used if empty.

To access the Clash API on a private network from a public website, you must explicitly specify it in access_control_allow_origin instead of using *.

access_control_allow_private_network

Since sing-box 1.10.0

Allow access from private network.

To access the Clash API on a private network from a public website, access_control_allow_private_network must be enabled.

store_mode

Deprecated in sing-box 1.8.0

store_mode is deprecated in Clash API and enabled by default if cache_file.enabled.

Store Clash mode in cache file.

store_selected

Deprecated in sing-box 1.8.0

store_selected is deprecated in Clash API and enabled by default if cache_file.enabled.

The tag must be set for target outbounds.

Store selected outbound for the Selector outbound in cache file.

store_fakeip

Deprecated in sing-box 1.8.0

store_selected is deprecated in Clash API and migrated to cache_file.store_fakeip.

Store fakeip in cache file.

cache_file

Deprecated in sing-box 1.8.0

cache_file is deprecated in Clash API and migrated to cache_file.enabled and cache_file.path.

Cache file path, cache.db will be used if empty.

cache_id

Deprecated in sing-box 1.8.0

cache_id is deprecated in Clash API and migrated to cache_file.cache_id.

Identifier in cache file.

If not empty, configuration specified data will use a separate store keyed by it.