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HOW SHOULD I GENERATE AN API KEY THAT ALLOWS ME TO USE THE HEROKU PLATFORM API?


ISSUE

Your API key has expired unexpectedly and you're receiving 403 Forbidden errors
when hitting API endpoints.


RESOLUTION

Use heroku authorizations:create for production apps, use heroku auth:token for
development.

There are multiple ways to create API keys and all of them have different
expiration policies. This is further compounded by the fact that you can
manually modify these expiration dates depending on your requirements and
whether your user account is SSO enabled.

In the Heroku Dev Center you'll see the CLI command heroku auth:token. This
command works by showing the token that is associated with the account that you
are logged into Heroku with. By default, this token expires a year after you log
in. This token will also expire if you run heroku logout from the CLI.
Furthermore, if you have SSO enabled, this token will expire 8 hours after you
login. While this command is appropriate for development, you will want to avoid
it for production use.

The Heroku Dashboard offers an API key on your Account settings if your user
account is not SSO enabled.
While this key does not have a hard-coded expiration date, it will expire
whenever your account password changes. In an enterprise context, where
passwords can be changed at a steady cadence, you may find this limitation to be
onerous.

If your account is not SSO enabled, heroku authorizations:create allows you to
create a token that expires at a specific time or never expires. You can also
use heroku authorizations:revoke to delete it immediately. Finally you can add a
description to this token, making it easier to document how the token is being
used.

We recommend that Enterprise Accounts and Teams that have enabled SSO for their
users and need a long lived token for integration maintain a user account that
is not SSO enabled to create and manage tokens.


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