# 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:** [November 9, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-user-api-keys-with-rest-api/61916/9 "2017-11-09T18:35:48Z")

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Thanks @j.jaffeux. I was drafting a similar message but I only had the code from the mobile app. These other code snippets are very useful.

When I tried this API against my own server using Postman, I kept getting a 400 error with no details. My Ruby is a little rusty but I’ll dig into the code more _but_ if you happen to know why a 400 might happen that would be helpful.

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