Re: [massdotdev] Using API Key

[Tom Morris]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 9:52 AM Masakazu Yasumoto
<myasu...@outlook.com> wrote:

> I'm a CS student and new to the V3 API. I'm struggling to use the API key provided. When I make an API request, where do I specify the API key? Is it included in the url? I tried something like:
> https://api-v3.mbta.com/stops&api_key=my_api_key
>
> But it didn't work. I'm creating an Android mobile application using Java. I can access the API without the key but I would like to make more than 20 calls a minute.
>
> I'm using JSONObjectRequest and StringRequest class

The separator for the query string is a question mark (?) not an
ampersand (&), so you probably want
https://api-v3.mbta.com/stops?api_key=my_api_key but most client API
libraries for HTTP have support for marshalling query strings from a
map, so if the Android one does, you should use that and let it take
care of all the punctuation, escaping, and string concatenation for
you.

Tom

[Alex Morgan]

What has worked for me is to add an X-API-Key header to the request. Here's something from StackOverflow on how to add headers to your requests using Volley: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35232119

Hope this helps,

Alex

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 9:52 AM Masakazu Yasumoto <myasu...@outlook.com> wrote:

Hello, 

I'm a CS student and new to the V3 API. I'm struggling to use the API key provided. When I make an API request, where do I specify the API key? Is it included in the url? I tried something like: 

https://api-v3.mbta.com/stops&api_key=my_api_key 

But it didn't work. I'm creating an Android mobile application using Java. I can access the API without the key but I would like to make more than 20 calls a minute. 

I'm using JSONObjectRequest and StringRequest class

Thank you, 

Masa

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[Tom Connors]

Here are a couple examples that worked recently

https://github.com/coding-to-music/mbta-demo-node-typescript-docker

and

https://github.com/coding-to-music/mbta-stop-display

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