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Create & Manage User API Keys - Node.js SDK

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  • Create a User API Key
  • Look up a User API Key
  • Enable or Disable an API Key
  • Delete an API Key

To create a new user API key, pass a name that's unique among all of the user's API keys to ApiKeyAuth.create().

const user = app.currentUser;
const key = await user.apiKeys.create("apiKeyName");

Important

You cannot create a user API key for a server API key or an anonymous user.

Warning

Store the API Key Value

The SDK only returns the value of the user API key when you create it. Make sure to store the key value securely so that you can use it to log in.

If you lose or do not store the key value there is no way to recover it. You will need to create a new user API key.

To get an array that lists all of a user's API keys, call ApiKeyAuth.fetchAll().

To find a specific API key, pass the key's _id to ApiKeyAuth.fetch().

const user = app.currentUser;
// List all of a user's keys
const keys = await user.apiKeys.fetchAll();
// Get a specific key by its ID
const key = await user.apiKeys.fetch("5eb5931548d79bc784adf46e");

To enable or disable a user API key, pass the key's _id to ApiKeyAuth.enable() or ApiKeyAuth.disable(). When a key is disabled, it cannot be used to log in on behalf of the user.

// Get the ID of a User API Key
const user = app.currentUser;
const apiKeys = await user.apiKeys.fetchAll();
const keyId = apiKeys[0]["_id"];
// Enable the User API Key
await user.apiKey.enable(keyId);
// Disable the User API Key
await user.apiKey.disable(keyId);

To permanently delete a user API, pass the key's _id to ApiKeyAuth.delete(). Deleted keys cannot be recovered.

// Get the ID of a User API Key
const user = app.currentUser;
const apiKeys = await user.apiKeys.fetchAll();
const keyId = apiKeys[0]["_id"];
// Delete the User API Key
await user.apiKey.delete(keyId);

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