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Generating Search-Only API Key in Typesense Cloud

TLDR John needed help with generating a search-only API key. Jason guided on how to retrieve it from Typesense's documentation.

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John

04:43 PM

I forgot how to generate a search only API key... is there a way to do this directly through the admin backend on the typesense cloud server?

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Jason

04:45 PM

You can go to the API Keys section and then paste the JSON parameter from the code snippet here:

https://typesense.org/docs/0.22.2/api/api-keys.html#search-only-api-key

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Jason

04:46 PM

So something like:

{
  'description': 'Search-only companies key.',
  'actions': ['documents:search'],
  'collections': ['companies']
}

John

04:51 PM

OK thanks, did not even know that the field there was editable!👍

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