Metadata API Key Configuration fails due missing permissions

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Dear community,
I tried to enter a newly generated XANO API key from the developer access section (deprecated) to my Metadata API Key Configuration field in weweb.io. Each time i get the error message: “Failed to init Xano, please ensure your API key has the permission required.”

In an other topic the weweb support said: “…you can’t paste a Developer API Key inside the Metadata API Key field. The Developer API Key has been deprecated and can only be used by old configuration until they put a Metadata API key. New configuration are asked to use the new Metadata API.”

I wanted to use this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztcvnEWUeeA&t=66s) to add my xano data to my weweb project. I am a bit confused how to continue. Do I need to use the new Metadata API? and if yes, how do I do this?

I already followed this instructions here (Metadata API (beta) - Xano Documentation) and tried to copy and paste my Meta Data API in this format “https://xabc-1yz2-abcd.xano.io/api:meta” into my Metadata API Key Configuration field in weweb.io with the same error message. I also added a personal access token which I can use to authorize on my swagger docuementation but I do not understand how this helps me to get a solution reffering to my problem to add a Metadata API Key in weweb.io. Of course I also tried to copy and paste my personal metadata API key id from the token page into my Metadata API Key Configuration field in weweb.io, but I get the same error message…

I am completely new in this so sorry if the solution is so obvious and i don’t see it. Thanks for any hint!

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Make sure that the access token has full permissions and your v1 branch has all swagger documentation enabled. Plus, this branch needs to have the auth endpoints.

Definitely a weweb bug that I dealt with this week - even if the v1 branch isn’t your live branch it needs to be set up this way. But should work for you once the conditions above are met

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Thank you Jack for your quick response! I am currently working in the free “Build” Xano plan. Do I need to upgrade my plan to the chargeable “Launch” plan to make sure that my v1 branch has all swagger documentation enabled etc.?

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I dont think so. If you’re on a free plan you have no branching if I remember well.

Did you manage to generate your metadata api key ?

Here the documentation to generate the key => https://docs.xano.com/metadata-api#personal-access-token

Be aware you have to copy/paste the generated key (showed only one time) not the id of the key you can see on the already generated keys.

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Thanks, now everything works! I thought that I need to generate, copy and paste the developer API key into the API Key configuration field in weweb.io (like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztcvnEWUeeA&t=66s). Now I created a new access token, copied it into my weweb.io API Key configuration field and my problem was solved. :slight_smile:

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Yes sorry, the video is 7 months old and we updated the xano plugin since to use the latest API, the developer one is deprecated by Xano :slight_smile:

We will try to better inform newcomers! Its difficult to both ship fast and keep every ressource in sync :sweat_smile:

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Alexis,

I’m trying to configure the xano plugin for first time, i have the correct key, set it to expire to never (as it default to 7 days) pasted into Weweb and now i’m going through the plugin configuration settings, I’ve reached “Global Headers” section and not reall sure what to do here. Is there any up-to-date instructions/videos? everything i can find is about the older plugin
(perhaps you guys should take down your old video, as old is worse that none)