API keys

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Create an account

First, create an account on https://app.askvideos.com

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Generate an API key

To generate an API key, select the account icon on the top right of the page and select ‘Settings’.

Then, navigate to the ‘API keys’ section on the left sidebar.

Then select “Create New Secret Key” and enter a name to generate an API key.

The API key can then be shown by clicking the eye icon.

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API key best practices

We recommend the following steps to protect API keys from misuse.

# .env file
ASKVIDEOS_API_KEY='example_api_key'

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Next steps

Now that we have an API key, we can do some cool things with the index.