Flywheel · Authentication Profile

Flywheel Authentication

Authentication

Flywheel secures its APIs with apiKey across 1 declared security scheme, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

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Methods: apiKey Schemes: 1 OAuth flows: API key in: header

Security Schemes

FlywheelApiKey apiKey

· in: header ()

Source

Authentication Profile

generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/api_sdk/
docs: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/api_sdk/
notes: >-
  Flywheel authenticates API/SDK/CLI access with a per-user API key. The key is
  of the form <hostname>:<key> and is generated from the user profile in the
  Flywheel web UI. No public OpenAPI is available (the API is per-instance), so
  this profile is captured from the developer documentation rather than derived.
summary:
  types: [apiKey]
  api_key_in: [header]
  oauth2_flows: []
schemes:
  - name: FlywheelApiKey
    type: apiKey
    in: header
    key_name: Authorization
    format: '<hostname>:<key>'
    obtained_from: User profile in the Flywheel web application
    used_by:
      - flywheel-sdk (Python) — flywheel.Client('<api-key>')
      - flywheel-cli — fw login <api-key>
      - fw-client HTTP client
    sources: [docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/api_sdk/]

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