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Working with an API after being granted access

After requesting access to an API, the API owner must validate your request and attach a contract to it to set your access limits.

About this task

There is no current in-application messaging system that notifies you when the API owner approves your request. Therefore, you should communicate with the owner of the Developer Portal to know when the API owner approves the request. Otherwise, monitor the Subscriptions page to check when an approved subscription appears.

Prerequisites

  • You have requested access to an API and the API owner has approved your request.

Procedure

  1. From the Developer Portal, click Subscriptions.

    A list of your subscriptions appears.

  2. Click the name of your subscription.

  3. Then, click the API Name to open the relevant subscription details page.

  4. On the Subscriptions page for the API, notice the API Key displayed with a copy button next to the box.

  5. Copy the API Key to the clipboard by clicking Copy.

  6. Then, specify the API Key in the X-API-Key header field to access the API.

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