API key

DefinitionAn API key is the credential that lets your own scripts, the MCP server and the WordPress plugin act on your AI Rank Lab account. It comes as a key plus a secret.

You find it under Content → Developer API → API keys, where you can also rotate it and whitelist the domains it may act on. The public API and MCP server need both the key and the secret on each request. Rotating the key means updating every place that uses it, including the WordPress plugin and the audit widget embed.

Treat the secret like a password: keep it out of front-end code and public repositories. See API keys.

Learn it step by step

• API keys (API and MCP for developers)
• The API playground (API and MCP for developers)

Related terms

• MCP (Model Context Protocol): MCP is an open protocol that lets AI assistants such as Claude call external tools and data sources. AI Rank Lab runs an MCP server so you can use its tools from an assistant.
• Webhook: A webhook is an HTTP request one system sends to another when something happens. AI Rank Lab uses one to deliver a finished article to your website when you publish.
• Credits: Credits are AI Rank Lab's single currency: one balance pays for every paid action, such as audits, prompt runs, articles and API calls, while reading results you already have is free.