Create Key

You must create your first API Key using the Deepgram Console. After you have your first API key, you can use that to create more keys for a specified project. Refer to the documentation Creating API Keys for more details.

Deepgram API Keys

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At a minimum to create a new Deepgram API key you will be required the set the scope:keys:write. Refer to the documentation Working with Roles & API Scopes for more details.

Deepgram API Keys can be created with different levels of roles and scopes as needed. To create a Deepgram API Key you can use the following example and set any additional roles and scopes.

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Replace YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY with your Deepgram API Key.

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.deepgram.com/v1/projects/{project_id}/keys \
     --header 'Authorization: Token ' YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "comment": " A comment",
  "tags": ["A Tag"],
  "scopes": [
    "usage:write",
    "keys:write"
    .. additional scopes
  ]
}
'

A successful response:

{
  "api_key_id": "xxxxxx",
  "key": "xxxxxx",
  "comment": "A Comment",
  "scopes": [
    "keys:write",
    "keys:read",
    "usage:write"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "A Tag"
  ],
  "created": "2024-05-21T17:19:49.373761Z"
}TBD

Deepgram Self-Hosted API Keys

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To create a new self-hosted API key, you will be required to set the scopes at a minimum: onprem:product:api and onprem:product:engine. Refer to the documentation On-Prem Product Scopes for more details.

On-prem API keys can also be created by including the desired role in the same scopes list as the On-prem product scopes when submitting the key creation request.

To create an On-prem API Key, you can use the following example which includes the default on-prem product scopes for a given project.

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Replace YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY with your Deepgram API Key.

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.deepgram.com/v1/projects/3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301/keys \
     --header 'Authorization: YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY ' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "comment": "My on-prem API key",
  "scopes": [
    "member",
    "onprem:products"
  ]
}
'

A successful response:

{
  "api_key_id": "xxxxxx",
  "key": "xxxxxxx",
  "comment": "My on-prem API key",
  "scopes": [
    "member",
    "onprem:product:api",
    "onprem:product:engine"
  ],
  "created": "2023-06-29T00:33:46.443412Z"
}