API keys

Use API keys to authenticate API requests.

EnhanceDocs authenticates your API requests using your account’s API keys. EnhanceDocs raises an invalid request error if you don’t include a key, and an authentication error if the key is incorrect or outdated.

You can use the App Dashboard to reveal, revoke, and create secret API keys.

Secret and publishable keys

All accounts have a total of two API keys by default.

Secret

To be used on the server-side: Must be secret and stored securely in your web or mobile app’s server-side code (such as in an environment variable or credential management system) to call EnhanceDocs APIs. Don’t expose this key on a website or embed it in a mobile application.

Example: sk_123ab456c7890f3b211ab1a6b0af14e8ea4284c5701ced95

Publishable

On the client-side: Can be publicly-accessible in your web or mobile app’s client-side code (such as enhancedocs-search) to let the server know which documentation provide information for.

Example: pk_a12345b0cd1c5951f810dba47c49261296cd6ed41cfca5cf