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Configure Authorization and Authentication for External APIs
Before you can access data using APIs, you must configure appropriate authorization and authentication. We recommend using service principals to interact with the external Vuforia APIs. For more information, see Create Service Principals for External API Access.
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While service principals will be the preferred way of interacting the APIs going forward, dedicated secret requests to Vuforia Technical Support will remain available in this release. For more information, see Obtain the x-api-key ID and Secret.