API Authentication

Taxonomy API uses private user key (ApiKey) 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 Taxonomy API calls with the user key (ApiKey).

How to get user key

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

  1. Enter your Email and Password to log in to your RChilli My Account client portal or use Office 365 or Google to log in as necessary. You must sign up if you do not have registered account.
    Note: Contact support@rchilli.com for My Account portal access, subscription plans, pricing, and for any further support.


  2. Click RChilli API to log in into RChilli My Account portal.

  3. 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.
    Note: On this page, you can also get other details such as Parsing Expiry Date, and Search & Match Expiry Date.


  4. Authenticate API calls with the user key (ApiKey), for more details on Taxonomy endpoints and parameters, see Taxonomy.

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.