Technical Tip: How to view explicit web proxy users from API

There are 3 methods to show explicit web proxy users: from GUI, and CLI. It can get the same result, but the result is not too easy to automation for further use.

Using API will be easy to integrate with other tools.

From GUI:

Go to Users and Devices.

From CLI:

diag wad user list

ID: 280, VDOM: root, IPv4: 10.173.1.26
user name : proxy
worker : 0
duration : 177
auth_type : IP
auth_method : Basic
pol_id : 1
g_id : 2
user_based : 0
expire : 5224
LAN:
bytes_in=1007 bytes_out=14551
WAN:
bytes_in=14479 bytes_out=839

From API:

https://<FGT IP>/api/v2/monitor/user/firewall?access_token=<API Token>

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