Getting started
Creating and using API keys
Where to find your key, how to send it, and what to do when one is lost or compromised.
Every account gets an API key automatically on first visit to the dashboard. You never have to request one.
Finding your key
Open the dashboard. A new key is shown in full once, at creation. After that only the last four characters are displayed, because we store a SHA-256 hash rather than the key itself.
Sending it
Authenticate with a bearer token on every request:
Authorization: Bearer tf_live_YOUR_KEY
A bare key with no Bearer prefix is the most common cause of a 401.
If a key is lost or leaked
It cannot be recovered, only replaced. Create a new key and delete the old one from the dashboard; requests using the deleted key start failing immediately. Keys are per-account, not per-project, so rotating one affects everything using it.
Checking a key works
Call GET /api/v1/me. It returns your user id and credit balance, and costs nothing.
Keys are free to create and there is no approval step - every account gets 100 credits a month to test with.
More in Getting started
Still stuck?
Open the chat launcher, bottom right, and include your request_id if you have one. Or email [email protected].