Search and Match API Authentication

Search and Match API uses private user key (index key) to authenticate requests. To authenticate the call to an API endpoint, there are only 3 steps:

  • Get access to the RChilli My Account.
  • Login to the My Account portal and get the user key.
  • Authenticate search and match API calls with the user key (index key).

How to get user key

In order to set up your access to Search and Match API, you need to get API user key using My Account portal.

  1. Enter your Email and Password to log in to the RChilli My Account partner portal. You can also Sign Up to register a new account or log in using Office 365 or Google accounts as necessary.
    Note: Contact support@rchilli.com for My Account portal access, subscription plans, pricing, and for any further support.


  2. On the My Account tab, select the Dashboard on the navigation panel and click symbol on the User Key field to know your user key.

  3. Authenticate API calls with the user key, for more details on Search and Match endpoints and parameters, see Search and Match Endpoints, Method and Parameters.

Refreshing your user key

  1. Go to My Account and enter the login details such as email id and password.
  2. Navigate to the My Account tab to view the Parsing Pending Credits and Paring Expiring Date for your product. Once all parsing credits are utilized or if the parsing date expired, your API key will not work and expired.

  3. Contact support@rchilli.com to extend the plans of your products and get your user key refreshed.