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# How to use

The GoPlugin-APIDiscovery platform is specifically designed by our partner TeejLab for the Plugin Community. On this portal, you’ll find important instructions for accessing the platform. After creating/accessing your account on the platform, we encourage you to continue visiting this page in the future for other useful information and announcements related to the platform.

1. &#x20;Click on the link received in the email Invite and it redirects to  <https://goplugin.apidiscovery.teejlab.com/> portal, navigate to API Categories -> A- Goplugin Recommended APIs to see the list of APIs available for use.&#x20;

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&#x20;2\.  List of available APIs will be displayed.

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&#x20;3\. Click on one of the API (for example Cryptocompare) to get the API endpoint.&#x20;

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&#x20;4\. Click on the API to get the actual API endpoint URL as below.

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&#x20;5\. Select the “Request Body” tab and click on the Example Request and it will populate the data in the Request Body text box.

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&#x20;6\. Execute the API with input {"fsyms": "BTC", "tsyms": "ETH"} in request body and check for the response in My Results -> API requests.

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&#x20;7\. API key can be fetched from the profile page and this API-KEY can be used for all the APIs listed on the Plugin-TeejLab portal. For the first time Generate a new key and keep it safe for using it in your applications.

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8\. You could follow similar steps in the document <https://docs.goplugin.co/use-cases/crypto-compare-pricing-index> to create an external adapter and the jobs.

NOTE: API Endpoint URL and API key obtained from the TeejLab portal can be used in the adapter.