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API Calls

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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.

API Pricing (There is no cost)

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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.

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.

Requesting User API Key

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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.

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.

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.

Simple PHP API requests

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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.

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.