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How to post a video or audio

📗 Getting Started
If you are a PRO user you can attach a video to your conversation! To do this you must either first post your conversation or save it as a draft first to attach.

Upload multiple photos

📗 Getting Started
You can attach multiple photos to a single conversation in 2 ways. We are working to make this better but for now it's limited.

Network-level IP blocked from access due to legal requirement

🩹 Legal Requirements & Bans
We have made the decision due to the local age verification laws for social media that to block access to our network in some locations. We do not collect user data and due to this we have no way to do age verification.

API Calls

📚 Developer Resources
The Hey.Café API is free and open to anyone. However, some calls require an API key for private content or POST requests but getting an API key is free from your account settings.

Share to Hey.Café URL

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We have a new share to Hey.Café url that can be used by external services and scripts like our Share to Hey.Café Siri Shortcut that add's the action to the share sheet on iOS, iPadOS and macOS.

Auto redirect aka TakeMeTo (For profile avatar and headers)

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This endpoint call will auto redirect and supply the URL to things like an account avatar or header.

Website embeds

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We have an easy system to embed content on any webpage that will fit in. It even supports dark mode automatically.

Sign in with Hey.Café

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We want to make things easy and thats why we are working on many ways to connect to an account and provide easy sign in. So for this we have added the ability to allow users to sign in to your service using a Hey.Café account.

API Pricing (There is no cost)

📚 Developer Resources
Unlike other platforms like Twitter, and Reddit we wanted to make this clear. We charge $0.00 for using our API. That is it, and thats all we will charge.

Requesting User API Key

📚 Developer Resources
To get a user API key you can send the user to this page and if they allow access we will send you the API key for the users account created just for your application.

Simple PHP API requests

📚 Developer Resources
This is a simple function to make API requests. You can provide no post variables or any that are needed in the API call, this is only an example and you can provide the API variables in the URL if you want also.

Uploading files

📗 Getting Started
Uploading a file is easy, but it does require you to have Pro. Once you have pro if you want to attach audio, video, or even other file types like PDF content you can do so after your conversation is made.

What is a Café?

📗 Getting Started
Anyone can create a café (community), a place for people to post conversations and hang out.

Text formatting and styles

📗 Getting Started
Unlike a lot of other networks we have a large range of formatting options and we are always updating our formatting options. As a result check here for any changes. You can also check the bottom of this page for recent changes.

Searching

📗 Getting Started
You are able to search on Hey.Café using the search bar at the top of the page. Type in the keywords that you would like to search for on Hey.Café, and it will search through accounts, conversations, and cafés.

Private Messaging

📗 Getting Started
On top of being able to share conversations on your profile or in cafés, we offer the ability for you to invite people into a private chatroom.

Account Settings

📗 Getting Started
We provide several options for you to personalize or alter information about your profile and account.

Café Settings

📗 Getting Started
There are several options available to modify café behaviour and information!

Conversation Tags

📗 Getting Started
Tags are a feature for both accounts and cafés that allows you to designate posts as part of a subject.