API Key Basics

Every integration starts with an API key. In this episode, Maryam shows you where to generate one from Settings > Developer, how to scope it to the right permissions, and how to store it safely instead of pasting it into shared documents or chat messages.

Once the key exists, she walks through making your first authenticated request with it: setting the Authorization header correctly, hitting a simple read-only endpoint, and reading the JSON response that comes back. You'll also see the most common authentication errors — an expired key, a missing header, and a mismatched tenant — and what each one looks like in practice.

By the end of this episode you'll have a working key and a request you can reuse as a template for everything that follows in the series.