# How to create an api key on the admin panel

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [May 13, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-an-api-key-on-the-admin-panel/87383 "2018-05-13T23:15:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-an-api-key-on-the-admin-panel/87383/9 "2018-05-15T03:10:34Z")

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> [@mattman](#):
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> What “username” am I supposed to use to identify an account?

If you created an “all users” API key should the name be “system”?

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-user-data-remotely-api-database-curl/31415/4?u=mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-user-data-remotely-api-database-curl/31415/4)

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