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Overview

To authenticate with Chaser, you need:
  1. API Key — the key of your Chaser organisation’s API key pair.
  2. API Secret — the secret issued together with the API key.
This guide will show you how to get both in Chaser.

Prerequisites

Step 1: Create an API organisation

Chaser API keys belong to an organisation that is connected through the Chaser API. If your organisation already uses the Chaser API, skip to Step 2.
  1. Log in to Chaser.
  2. On the Welcome screen, under Other ways to connect, select the API option and click Connect with Chaser API.
  3. Enter your company name and click Connect.

Step 2: Get your API key and secret

  1. In Chaser, go to Management > Integration.
  2. On the Chaser API card, click Get API keys.
Chaser Integration tab with the Get API keys button on the Chaser API card
  1. In the Your Chaser API keys dialog, copy the Key and the Secret, then click Done.
Chaser dialog Your Chaser API keys showing the Host, Key and Secret fields
Chaser gives each organisation one key pair, with full access to the organisation. You cannot name it or limit its permissions.

Step 3: Enter your credentials in the Connect UI

  1. Open the form where you need to authenticate with Chaser.
  2. Enter the Key in the API Key field and the Secret in the API Secret field.
  3. Submit the form, and you should be successfully authenticated.
Chaser Connect UI form with the API Key and API Secret fields You are now connected to Chaser.