# API: Can I authenticate without putting the key in the URL?

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [May 29, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-can-i-authenticate-without-putting-the-key-in-the-url/29425 "2015-05-29T18:17:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![blake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blake/32/157322_2.png) [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-can-i-authenticate-without-putting-the-key-in-the-url/29425/2 "2015-05-29T19:18:57Z")

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I don’t believe there is support to put the parameters in the header, but you can put them in the body of the request and not as part of the url.

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