# API key?
**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/api-key/1746
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/api-key/1746 "2020-04-03T15:38:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ngrilly](https://hub.mender.io/u/ngrilly)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/api-key/1746/1 "2020-04-03T15:38:33Z")
I’m writing a script to fetch the device inventory using the API. But I don’t see any API key in Hosted Mender?
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### Author:  [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/api-key/1746/2 "2020-04-03T15:41:36Z")
Hi @ngrilly,
Take a look at this section in the docs, which should cover how to get an access key,
[https://docs.mender.io/2.3/server-integration/using-the-apis](https://docs.mender.io/2.3/server-integration/using-the-apis)
Specifically,
```auto
Now obtain a management API JSON Web Token by using the Open Source or Enterprise login API:
JWT=$(curl -X POST -u $MENDER_SERVER_USER $MENDER_SERVER_URI/api/management/v1/useradm/auth/login)
```
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### Author:  [@ngrilly](https://hub.mender.io/u/ngrilly)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/api-key/1746/3 "2020-04-05T15:49:51Z")
Hi @mirzak,
Yes, this is what I currently do. But the JWT token expires after a few days. That means the server needs to know my Mender username and password, to be able to refresh the JWT token. That’s why I’m asking for API keys.
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### Author:  [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/api-key/1746/4 "2020-04-06T07:29:13Z")
Ah, understand. We do not yet have API keys and currently only the mentioned method is supported. With that said, it is definitely a valid use-case to provide API keys and is something that we are looking at.