# Authentication

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**Secure your secret key**

Do not commit your secret token to git, or use them in client-side code.
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This **secret API key** grants unrestricted access to **Padiwise's** API and authorizes all API calls. If there's any suspicion of a security breach, the secret key can be reset directly from your **Padiwise** dashboard. To access **Padiwise** endpoints, you must first obtain an **access token** by sending a request to the login endpoint using the OAuth 2.0 protocol.

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The `Authorization` header should be formatted as:

```
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {{ access_token }}'
```


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```
GET https://padiwise.gitbook.io/padiwise/getting-started/authentication.md?ask=<question>
```

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