navsection: userguide
title: "Getting an API token"
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+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
The Arvados API token is a secret key that enables the @arv@ command line client to access Arvados with the proper permissions.