API key changes every time I update

[tymanthius 18]

I'm on the beta, and every time I apt-get upgrade the api changes.

 

This is a huge annoyance as I use the Ombi requests system that relys on the api.

 

any idea why this is?

[Luke 40006]

What exactly do you mean?

[tymanthius 18]

If you go to the dashboard, and at the bottom you click 'api' that pops up a 'dead' page, but it includes the API key in it.  However, it seems that any time I run update, which can be frequently as I'm on the beta, it changes the API key.  Is there a setting I'm missing that causes this?

[Luke 40006]

It generally only changes when you actually log in and log out, however, this is internal implementation detail of the communication between web app and server. I really would not suggest hacking into it.

[tymanthius 18]

That seems like a bad design for api.  I mean, isn't the point of the api to be able to interact w/ the server w/o having to worry about login/logout?  It should stay the same until you find you need to change it.

[Luke 40006]

Except you're not talking about the API, you're talking about the private storage of a particular Emby app.

[tymanthius 18]

I don't understand.  I'm logged into the emby server from <localip>:8096, then go to Manage Server, then on the dashboard I click 'api' at the bottom.  How is that "private storage of a particular Emby app"?

 

And if that were true, how could Ombi pull server info from an app?

[Luke 40006]

That api link is the interactive api documentation, which has been out of commission for a few releases now but will come back in a future update.