Title: Error in trying to retrieve API
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error in trying to retrieve API

 *  [jdgamingit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgamingit/)
 * (@jdgamingit)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-trying-to-retrieve-api/)
 * Good Afternoon
 * site [http://jdgamingit.co.za](http://jdgamingit.co.za)
 * I have received this error in the initial install of wordfence
    can you assist?
 * Thank you
 * Your options have been saved, but we encountered a problem. You left your API
   key blank, so we tried to get you a free API key from the Wordfence servers. 
   However we encountered a problem fetching the free key: We received an error 
   response when trying to contact the Wordfence scanning servers. The HTTP status
   code was [0] and the curl error number was [0]
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 * Last reply from: [jdgamingit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgamingit/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-trying-to-retrieve-api/)
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