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Protecting Typesense Key in Javascript Project

TLDR Stefanie expressed concern over potential misuse of their typesense project key. Kishore Nallan proposed using a scoped API key with limitations for protection.

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Feb 01, 2023 (7 months ago)

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Stefanie

09:30 AM

Morning guys and girls 👋 , we’re using typesense for our projects on a javascript client. we use the api inside of the builded javascript, which is the search only api with keys. we’re wondering if someone got ahold of our key, what damage could they really do? are there any restrictions build in to prevent xx calls over a certain amount of time to prevent the quote from being ski high?

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Kishore Nallan

10:09 AM

If you are worried about search only key being too permissive, you can use a scoped API key and bake in some limitations like limit_hits inside it. See: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/data-access-control.html#scraping-protection

Stefanie

11:50 AM

thank you Kishore Nallan

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