How do you set up an API key system for your website?

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Patrick Desjardins picture Patrick Desjardins · Sep 16, 2008 · Viewed 22.1k times · Source

Let say that I have a website with some information that could be access externally. Those information need to be only change by the respected client. Example: Google Analytic or WordPress API key. How can I create a system that work like that (no matter the programming language)?

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Aeon picture Aeon · Sep 16, 2008

A number of smart people are working on a standard, and it's called OAuth. It already has a number of sample implementations, so it's pretty easy to get started.

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