What Are API Keys, And Why Are They So Important? | System Design Interview Basics

Hi, are you able to withdrawl from coinstats, and do you need some sort of key to do so. Im not sure if its an API key or if I was about to be scammed. With the company that I invested with advised me to download coinstats because I requested a withdrawl and want to charge me for some kind of key in order to get access of the request.

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Thanks again, I tried use Auth with x-api-key and got <Your request was made with invalid credentials>, does it mean that that API accepts only -Basic authentication?

very nice explanation, now I'm ready to put this into practice

Very useful.
Thanks........

What site do we use to generate an api key please?

great! now please explain api key secrets :)

Nice explanation of API Keys. If we want to generate an api-key in the backend server, should I generate a random string of fixed length and then encode it with base64? After that store in database. And then how could I validate the api-key?
Once the api-key is validated we can easily filter the user-uuid against the api-key from database.

I wanted to learn how they could be dangerous, why should we hide api keys???

Could you explain the difference beetwen app and user identification? I am who create, store and administrate API keys? BTW Great video! Thanks a lot:)

Thanks for this

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