> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.ave.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.ave.ai/quick-start.md).

# Quick Start

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**Good to know:** A quick start guide can be good to help folks get up and running with your API in a few steps. Some people prefer diving in with the basics rather than meticulously reading every page of documentation!
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## Get your API keys

Your API requests are authenticated using API keys. Any request that doesn't include an API key will return an error.

For more information about an API key, please send email to <business@ave.ai>

## Make your first request

To make your first request, send an authenticated request to the token endpoint. This will query a token, which is nice.

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[v1](/reference/api-reference/v1.md)
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Take a look at how you might call this method via `curl`:

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```
curl -H "Ave-Auth: my API key" https://openapi.avedata.org/api/v1/tokens/0xbb4cdb9cbd36b01bd1cbaebf2de08d9173bc095c-bsc
```

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