Allowing Users to Create API Keys

The Files.com API lets your engineers build custom integrations, flows, and reports. It also makes it easy for inexperienced developers to create inefficient automations, such as a script that logs in and lists a large directory every few minutes, or one that repeatedly uploads the same file. Those patterns waste storage and platform usage.

By default, only site administrators can create API keys. A site-wide setting controls whether other users can create their own.

When the setting is disabled, users who are not site administrators cannot add API keys to their own account. Site administrators can create or remove API keys for individual users. A user who is not a site administrator cannot remove an API key created for them by an administrator.

When the setting is enabled, any user can create an API key for their own account and remove API keys from their own settings.

Whether the setting is enabled or disabled, users who are not site administrators cannot view or manage API keys for other users.