zulip/templates/zerver/api/dev-fetch-api-key.md

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# Fetch a development API key
For easy testing of mobile apps and other clients and against Zulip
development servers, we support fetching a Zulip API key for any user
on the development server without authentication (so that they can
implement analogues of the one-click login process available for Zulip
development servers on the web).
**Note:** This endpoint is only available on Zulip development
servers; for obvious security reasons it will always return an error
in a Zulip production server.
`POST {{ api_url }}/v1/dev_fetch_api_key`
## Usage examples
{start_tabs}
{tab|curl}
```
curl {{ api_url }}/v1/dev_fetch_api_key \
-u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY \
-d "username=iago@zulip.com"
```
{end_tabs}
## Arguments
{generate_api_arguments_table|zulip.yaml|/dev_fetch_api_key:post}
## Response
#### Return values
* `api_key`: The API key that can be used to authenticate as the requested
user.
* `email`: The email address of the user who owns the API key.
#### Example response
A typical successful JSON response may look like:
{generate_code_example|/dev_fetch_api_key:post|fixture(200)}