Where can I find my API key?

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Where can I find my API key? I've searched dev area docs, and this help site, to no avail.

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Martin Nilsson January 27, 2011 22:03

I think this is very bad by design to let people use the same passsword as they login to the account on the site. You should either let us set a API key of our own or generate a long hash key automatically.

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Eric Becking (Employee) January 13, 2011 18:53

Your api key is the password you use to login to our website. All the api calls take your username / password combination exactly as if you were trying to login to the website. Assuming you've got an account with SendGrid and you've forgotten your password you can contact anyone from support and have them either send you a password reset email, or just have them set it manually.

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Your api key is the password you use to login to our website. All the api calls take your username / password combination exactly as if you were trying to login to the website. Assuming you've got an account with SendGrid and you've forgotten your password you can contact anyone from support and have them either send you a password reset email, or just have them set it manually.

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Martin Nilsson January 27, 2011 22:03

I think this is very bad by design to let people use the same passsword as they login to the account on the site. You should either let us set a API key of our own or generate a long hash key automatically.

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  WOW. Very bad.
  
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Ryan Harris (Employee) May 03, 2011 21:27

Hello,

I apologize for the delayed response. We are currently monitoring this site much more heavily.

You are correct. This is a bad design and should be altered. Thank you for your feedback on this issue. I will submit this with our developers and point out this flaw in our system.

Thank you for your patience regarding this issue.

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Hello, I apologize for the delayed response. We are currently monitoring this site much more heavily. You are correct. This is a bad design and should be altered. Thank you for your feedback on this issue. I will submit this with our developers and point out this flaw in our system. Thank you for your patience regarding this issue. Ryan

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tutini August 02, 2011 14:30

Guys, can we expect this to be fixed any time soon?
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Guys, can we expect this to be fixed any time soon? Thanks

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Justin Wiley August 23, 2011 13:00

Ditto, been wandering around the site for 45 minutes trying to remember/find where to change the API key.

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Ditto, been wandering around the site for 45 minutes trying to remember/find where to change the API key.

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Roger Billerey-Mosier December 07, 2011 01:24

+1, FWIW. I just broke our mailer when doing a routine web password change. That's not good.

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+1, FWIW. I just broke our mailer when doing a routine web password change. That's not good.

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Alex Duffield January 18, 2012 04:23

+1 here. This NEEDS to be fixed.

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+1 here. This NEEDS to be fixed.

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Alex Duffield January 18, 2012 19:37

So what is the plan to correct this serious issue? It was acknowledged as an issue and a "Flaw" over nine months ago. When will it be corrected?

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So what is the plan to correct this serious issue? It was acknowledged as an issue and a "Flaw" over nine months ago. When will it be corrected?

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bamboo January 27, 2012 01:08

Yup, this is an idiotic design decision. And really? Is it that hard to change?

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Yup, this is an idiotic design decision. And really? Is it that hard to change?

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Chris March 14, 2012 15:50

It'd be really helpful if we could uncouple the password form API calls, clients who insist on setting a new password once we've set them up on Sendgrid than invariably break the integration.

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It'd be really helpful if we could uncouple the password form API calls, clients who insist on setting a new password once we've set them up on Sendgrid than invariably break the integration.

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Kyle Fox March 20, 2012 05:37

Any updates on this? The documentation states that the username/password are still required URL parameters for API requests...

I'm a bit shocked to learn that a service of SendGrid's stature is using passwords in URLs. Even more unsettling, they've known about the problem for a year and (apparently) still haven't fixed it.

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Any updates on this? The documentation states that the username/password are still required URL parameters for API requests... I'm a bit shocked to learn that a service of SendGrid's stature is using passwords in URLs. Even more unsettling, they've known about the problem for a year and (apparently) still haven't fixed it.

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