What is the difference between an API key and Authorization token?

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hi there,
I am trying to integrate zoho crm with a web app and want to know the difference between an API Key and Authorization token?

Posted 1-Jul-14 19:47pm

Sumit Bhargav

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2014-07-01T19:55:00

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The best way to use Zoho CRM is to learn it - http://www.zoho.com/crm/[^]
API Key (there is only one) is your key to access the online API - you will get your own when registering to Zoho CRM...
Authentication Token (can be more than one) used to connect the current API call to one of you Zoho CRM credentials. As you can access the same API from different applications you may want to assign different credentials to each of them...

Posted 1-Jul-14 19:55pm

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

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Sumit Bhargav 2-Jul-14 2:03am

thanks for the response,
i created an authorization token and can access the zoho crm api without even generating the api key.Is it the proper way to work?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 2-Jul-14 2:15am

You probably work with the free edition...

Sumit Bhargav 2-Jul-14 2:53am

hi there,
http://datawebcoder.com/codeByLanguage/1429/Zoho_CRM_API_Users_Authentication_Token_introduced.aspx
this link says that now we dont need to send the api key with the token,only token is enough.
Does that means that now the api key is just to differentiate between applications?