cx-apikey is easy to use and small API keys system.
It could be used to generating API keys, validating them and also works with them in the system. API keys generator use operating system random number generator, tokens have also selected prefixes, size of them could be changed, default its 256 letters.
How simple is it?
First, install it from PyPi.
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install cx-apikey
Then, You can use it in app. Let's generate first API key.
import cx_apikey as apikey
test = apikey.apikey_factory("test").set_size(128).generate()
print(repr(test))
You would see something like that:
API key: "test_1bf6b4320bc893435934ebe634f447f4e2d5076edda950357b95f2
01e98640268cb1d23e571d3a6f9883300eac0605d553dfa662920390a322023441c05"
For more complex usage see project wiki
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