# Can non-admin user issue their own API key?

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [December 14, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-non-admin-user-issue-their-own-api-key/173226 "2020-12-14T09:31:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-non-admin-user-issue-their-own-api-key/173226/5 "2020-12-14T20:53:08Z")

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For CLI programs, if this is necessary, you can launch a local web server and use a `http://localhost:XXXXX/callback` URL. The app does something similar.

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