# Generating User Api Keys with REST API

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [May 1, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-user-api-keys-with-rest-api/61916 "2017-05-01T22:55:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-user-api-keys-with-rest-api/61916/19 "2018-04-02T23:26:37Z")

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After authorize you will be redirected, so the redirect URL needs to go somewhere where you can handle decrypting the payload it redirects with.

Also there is a site setting that lists where the redirect is allowed to go.

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