Missing CKAN API Key

What's first

• Getting started
• X_CKAN_API_Key is a [DATAFAQS environment variable](DATAFAQS environment variables)

What we'll cover

This page describes the need for the shell environment variable X_CKAN_API_Key.

Let's get to it

CKAN requires an API key to register and modify dataset listings. DataFAQs SADI services access this key from the environment variable X-CKAN-API-Key, which can be set by:

export X-CKAN-API-Key="YOUR API KEY"

For more on CKAN API keys, see their pages:

• http://wiki.ckan.org/Using_the_API#Setup
• http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api.html#api-keys

Alternative designs for accessing the API key

• Could use http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

What's next

• X_CKAN_API_Key is also discussed at [DATAFAQS environment variable](DATAFAQS environment variables)