> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pdfshift.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create API key > Creates a new API key for the connected account with basic level (not master). This endpoint requires an API key with the `master` privilege (or a Bearer token from the Dashboard). If the account has reached the maximum number of allowed active API keys, the request will be refused. If you want to create an API key with master access, you need to create it via the Dashboard. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.pdfshift.io/openapi.json post /account/api openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: PDFShift API Documentation version: '3.0' description: >- This is the documentation for the PDFShift API. Our aim here is to provide you with a clear, concise and complete set of tool to generate the PDF you want. Don't forget to add the `sandbox` parameter to `True` while testing the API, this won't use your credits and generate free PDF (with a watermark). But if you forgot to set it, don't worry ; Send us a message and we'll reset your credits usage. termsOfService: https://pdfshift.io/terms contact: name: PDFShift url: https://pdfshift.io email: support@pdfshift.io x-logo: url: https://pdfshift.io/images/favicons/android-chrome-512x512.png servers: - url: https://api.pdfshift.io/v3 description: '' x-last-modified: 1764750693905 security: - apiKeyHeader: [] externalDocs: description: You can access our documentation online by visiting https://docs.pdfshift.io url: https://docs.pdfshift.io paths: /account/api: post: tags: - api-keys summary: Create API key description: >- Creates a new API key for the connected account with basic level (not master). This endpoint requires an API key with the `master` privilege (or a Bearer token from the Dashboard). If the account has reached the maximum number of allowed active API keys, the request will be refused. If you want to create an API key with master access, you need to create it via the Dashboard. requestBody: required: false content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiKeyForm' responses: '200': description: API key created headers: X-RateLimit-Remaining: description: >- The number of requests remaining in the current rate limit window. schema: type: integer X-RateLimit-Limit: description: >- The maximum number of requests allowed in the current rate limit window. schema: type: integer X-RateLimit-Reset: description: >- The time at which the current rate limit window resets (Unix timestamp). schema: type: integer format: int64 content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiKeyResult' example: success: true key: created: 1734076868000 name: Production key removed: null token: sk_abcde... public: zyzabc... last_used: null usage: 0 is_master: false '400': description: >- Bad request. The maximum number of allowed API keys has been reached, or the data passed was invalid. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '401': description: Unauthorized. Invalid auth key, missing, or disabled. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '429': description: Too Many Requests. You have been rate limited. headers: X-RateLimit-Remaining: description: >- The number of requests remaining in the current rate limit window. schema: type: integer X-RateLimit-Limit: description: >- The maximum number of requests allowed in the current rate limit window. schema: type: integer X-RateLimit-Reset: description: >- The time at which the current rate limit window resets (Unix timestamp). schema: type: integer format: int64 content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '500': description: Internal Server Error. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' components: schemas: ApiKeyForm: type: object properties: name: type: string maxLength: 250 description: A human-friendly name to identify the API key. ApiKeyResult: type: object properties: success: type: boolean key: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiKeyObject' Error: type: object properties: success: type: boolean error: type: string code: type: integer format: int32 ApiKeyObject: type: object properties: created: type: integer format: int64 description: Creation date of the key, as a Unix timestamp in milliseconds. name: type: string default: null description: The name given to the key. removed: type: integer format: int64 default: null description: >- Date at which the key was disabled, as a Unix timestamp in milliseconds. Null if the key is active. token: type: string description: The secret API key. Use this value to authenticate requests. public: type: string description: The public identifier of the key, used for converting templates. last_used: type: integer format: int64 default: null description: >- Date at which the key was last used, as a Unix timestamp in milliseconds. Null if never used. usage: type: integer format: int32 description: Number of conversions performed with this key over the last 7 days. is_master: type: boolean description: Whether this key has master privileges. securitySchemes: apiKeyHeader: type: apiKey description: >- Authenticate your account by including your secret key in API requests. You can manage your API keys in the [Dashboard](https://app.pdfshift.io/dashboard/). Authentication to the API is performed by using the HTTP Header X-API-Key. name: X-API-Key in: header x-last-modified: 1764750344730 ````