<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ah, but my application will be launched by different users from Midas. How can I programmatically get the user's API key and pass that info to my app so it can retrieve data from and put data back to the user's Midas account?<div><br></div><div>Mona</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 25, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Zach Mullen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Each user has a "Default" web API key that is generated for them when their user is first made, and it changes when the user changes their password. You can use that token to authenticate as that user.<div><br></div>
<div>To see your user's default key, go to the top menu for your user (under your name) and click "My Account". In the area that appears at the top, click the "Api" tab. The "Default" api key will be listed there, as in the screenshot attached.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can then use that within Pydas or whichever Midas client you plan to use.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Zach<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mona Wong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mona@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">mona@sdsc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Patrick:<br>
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And how does my application get this Midas API key? Is there a module that does this I can look at?<br>
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thanks,<br>
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