# API to show kibana dashboards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-show-kibana-dashboards/151941
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-show-kibana-dashboards/151941 "2018-10-10T21:25:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@adwaitjoshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adwaitjoshi)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-show-kibana-dashboards/151941/1 "2018-10-10T21:25:51Z")
I have a kibana secured with SearchGuard and we also have an application written in Node which includes all types of user configs.
I want to show the user specific dashboards based on their permissions. One way to do this is use embed tags. But thats not very practical. Here is what I am trying to do
1. Make curl call to get all visualizations and list them
2. Once they are listed then display the actual visualization to the user.
I am able to do the first part easily. However I cannot get the "Visualization" for the charts or dashboards to work. If I do a make a CURL call to the dashboard with the name of the dashboard and set embed-true, it doesnt render. Any ideas how can I get Kibana visualizations to show in my own app?
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### Author:  [@jen-huang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jen-huang)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-show-kibana-dashboards/151941/2 "2018-10-11T09:39:04Z")
Not sure why you do not want to use embed tags? Visualizations and dashboards are complex and visual by nature and cannot be served as a response payload to curl. After you retrieve visualization/dashboard names and IDs via curl, you can easily dynamically embed iframes by swapping out the ID in the embed code.
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