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Stainless authentication

We recommend you use the Stainless CLI to authenticate with Stainless, but you can also use an .env file:

  1. Inside your site’s cloned repository on your computer, make a copy of the .env.example file and name it .env (these files are hidden, so you may not be able to see them by default)
  2. Go to your org settings in the Stainless dashboard; if you have multiple orgs, make sure the one associated with your site is shown in the top left
  3. Press the Create new API key button
  4. Copy your new API key
  5. Open your .env file and paste your new API over the placeholder value
  6. Save your .env file

Your .env file should now contain a line that looks like the following, where stl_sk_... is the API key you pasted in:

.env
STAINLESS_API_KEY="stl_sk_..."