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An API key provides authentication for your app to interact securely with generated data APIs. If you create an API key using the instructions in the Ask or Engineer page, NexusOne automatically generates a unique API key. This guide explains how you can manually create an API key. Regardless of whatever approach you use, your app must include this key in the header of each HTTP request.

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Prerequisites

  • Appropriate permission: nx1_ask or nx1_engineer
  • An existing domain created using DataHub
  • A previously ingested dataset within a DataHub domain

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Create an API key

To authenticate with a data API, you need an API key.
  1. Log in to NexusOne.
  2. On the NexusOne homepage, click Connect.
  3. On the sidebar, click API Keys.
  4. Click the plus + icon in the top right corner of the Data API Keys page.
  5. Select an existing data API.
  6. Add a brief description for the key. This is optional.
  7. Add the number of days the key should be valid for. The minimum is one day.
  8. Click Create to generate the new API key.

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