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made the error message easier to read

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edit approved Jan 29, 2012 at 20:56

I'm running into a really weird issue and I would appreciate any guidance on what I'm doing wrong. So I recently applied for an API key here on Stack Exchange and it went through fine. So let's say (for example) I received the following API key:

abc3efghijk1mnop2rstuv

So using this key, I'm attempting to run a simple query like:

https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/info?key=abc3efghijk1mnop2rstuv&site=stackoverflow

And I get the message:

{
    "error_id": 400,
    "error_name": "bad_parameter",
    "error_message": "`key` doesn't match a known application" 
}

Am I using the API key correctly?

Note that I didn't want to post the real API key here for obvious reasons but if need be I can provide it.

abc3efghijk1mnop2rstuv

So using this key, I'm attempting to run a simple query like:

https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/info?key=abc3efghijk1mnop2rstuv&site=stackoverflow

And I get the message:

{"error_id":400,"error_name":"bad_parameter","error_message":"`key` doesn't match a known application"}

Am I using the API key correctly?

Note that I didn't want to post the real API key here for obvious reasons but if need be I can provide it.

abc3efghijk1mnop2rstuv

So using this key, I'm attempting to run a simple query like:

https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/info?key=abc3efghijk1mnop2rstuv&site=stackoverflow

And I get the message:

{
    "error_id": 400,
    "error_name": "bad_parameter",
    "error_message": "`key` doesn't match a known application" 
}

Am I using the API key correctly?

Note that I didn't want to post the real API key here for obvious reasons but if need be I can provide it.

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asked Jan 29, 2012 at 16:37

Marvin Pinto

Key doesn't match a known application

abc3efghijk1mnop2rstuv

So using this key, I'm attempting to run a simple query like:

https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/info?key=abc3efghijk1mnop2rstuv&site=stackoverflow

And I get the message:

{"error_id":400,"error_name":"bad_parameter","error_message":"`key` doesn't match a known application"}

Am I using the API key correctly?

Note that I didn't want to post the real API key here for obvious reasons but if need be I can provide it.

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