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 https://zulip.ciktel.com/api/v1/dev_fetch_api_key

Usage examples

curl -sSX POST https://zulip.ciktel.com/api/v1/dev_fetch_api_key \
    -d 'username=iago@zulip.com'

Parameters

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:

{
    "api_key": "gjA04ZYcqXKalvYMA8OeXSfzUOLrtbZv",
    "email": "iago@zulip.com",
    "msg": "",
    "result": "success"
}