API Keys

To download games, itch-dl uses a mix of webpage scraping and calling official itch APIs - for the latter to work, a valid API key is required to authenticate requests. Each key is roughly equivalent to full access to a single Itch account - do not share them with other people!

• You can create or look up existing API keys on itch.io.
• Only web keys can be used by itch-dl - do not use existing desktop or wharf keys.
• You can save your key as api_key in the configuration file for easy access.
• You can also provide it with the --api-key argument to itch-dl.