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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-can-i-authenticate-without-putting-the-key-in-the-url/29425>\
**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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-can-i-authenticate-without-putting-the-key-in-the-url/29425/9 "2017-01-17T15:03:42Z")

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This is absolutely something I want to support and something the user API already supports.

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