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API keys

How your website reads your content. One screen, and one rule.

The api keys screen in Inkling

Your website does not share a database with Inkling. It asks for content over the internet, and a key is what proves it is allowed to.

Under Configure, API keys is where you make them. Press New key, name it after where it will be used — “Marketing site”, not “key 2” — and optionally restrict which kinds of content it can read.

What a key can and cannot see

A key sees published content and nothing else. Never a draft, never a colleague's email address, never something in the bin. That holds even when one entry links to another — the linked one is re-checked before it is included.

Leaving the content boxes empty allows everything published. Ticking a few narrows it, which is worth doing if a key is going somewhere you control less.