Title: API key
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# API key

 *  Resolved [thecoffeedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecoffeedude/)
 * (@thecoffeedude)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-72/)
 * Hello
    just uploaded your plugin..to combat spam and stupid comments Where can
   this API key be obtained or can it ? Theres a field for it but there is nothing
   more said about it..thats odd whats with the API key field..? please clarify..
 * Thank you
 * Ralph
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/botsmasher/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/botsmasher/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Joe Dolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joedolson/)
 * (@joedolson)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-72/#post-4028080)
 * I’ll make that more obvious! BotSmasher is a service that requires API key authentication,
   and I could definitely make that more obvious. It’s in the installation instructions,
   but apparently nowhere else…
 *  Thread Starter [thecoffeedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecoffeedude/)
 * (@thecoffeedude)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-72/#post-4028178)
 * thanks for the feed back.. I finally found it but took a while! thanks again

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