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Credentials

When you interact with the ImpossibleFX platform programmatically, you use security credentials to prove your identity. There are two types of credentials depending on what you’re doing.

Account access

Your email and password give you access to the Console, where you manage projects, templates, and account settings.

API access

For programmatic access to the management API, you use an API Key and API Secret pair. These are separate from your account password.

Getting your API credentials

  1. Log in to the Console.
  2. Go to Account Settings > API Keys.
  3. Click Create New Key.
  4. Copy both the API Key and API Secret immediately.
! Warning

Your API Secret is shown only once when you create it. ImpossibleFX does not store secrets in plain text and cannot recover them. If you lose your secret, create a new key pair and delete the old one.

When credentials are required

Not all API calls require credentials:

ActionCredentials needed?
Making render requestsNo
Retrieving rendered videosNo
Managing projects via APIYes
Managing templates via APIYes
Accessing account settingsYes
i Note

Render requests only need your Project ID, not API credentials. This makes it safe to render videos from client-side code without exposing secrets.

Key rotation

Rotate your API keys regularly as a security best practice:

  1. Create a new key pair.
  2. Update your application to use the new key.
  3. Verify everything works.
  4. Delete the old key pair.

You can have multiple active key pairs at once, which makes zero-downtime rotation straightforward.