# Generating User Api Keys with REST API

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-user-api-keys-with-rest-api/61916>\
**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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**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:** [November 9, 2017, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-user-api-keys-with-rest-api/61916/5 "2017-11-09T06:31:02Z")

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> [@djensen47](#):
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> Does the API that @sam proposed in that post actually exist or not?

Yes user api keys exists and are consumed by the mobile app, look at the source code of the mobile app for exact specifications for now.

I would love to have this better documented so if you want to take that project on ❤

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