# Invalid\_api\_key

**URL:** <https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/invalid-api-key/87243>\
**Category:** AeroAPI\
**Created:** [March 21, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/invalid-api-key/87243 "2023-03-21T13:55:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![NCSoftware](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/ncsoftware/32/118488_2.png) [@NCSoftware](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/NCSoftware)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/invalid-api-key/87243/1 "2023-03-21T13:55:05Z")

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I’m getting quite a few of these responses in the past week alone. Can someone please review my account, your logs, and tell me why this is happening?

{“title”: “Invalid API key”, “reason”: “INVALID\_API\_KEY”, “detail”: “Provided API key is not valid”, “status”: 401}

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**Author:** ![nasageek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/nasageek/32/122208_2.png) [@nasageek](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/nasageek)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/invalid-api-key/87243/2 "2023-03-21T17:09:48Z")

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I’ve checked our logs and it appears the requests producing 401 errors are to the following URL `aeroapi.flightaware.com/aeroapi/flights/`. You must provide an ident or flight ID in the path for the request to succeed. Sorry for the unclear error.

-Chris