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Your First API Call

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Getting Your API Key

Scale API Key can be retrieved by logging into the Scale dashboard. In the customer dashboard, click your profile and visit the “API Key” section to get your “Live API Key”, which should start with live_.
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Decide Which Tasks You Want to Download

You can browse your projects and batches in the Scale Dashboard. API supports searching tasks by name or ID of the associated projects, batches or deliveries.Scale API offers multiple ways to search tasks that you want to download:
  • You can download from a project or a batch
  • You can download tasks directly from a specific delivery
  • You can recently completed tasks from a project
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Downloading Tasks

Below you can find an example of how to download completed tasks from a project: Downloading TasksYou can also explore other ways to download tasks from Scale API:

Initializing Scale Python SDK

First install the Python SDK.
Then use your API key to initialize the client.

Downloading Tasks

See our API Reference to retrieve a single task or query for tasks in a project or batch.

Uploading Tasks to Scale

Creating a Batch

First you are expected to create a batch in the project.

Creating Tasks

Once a batch is created, then the tasks can be created within that batch. Each task is expected to have certain information sent in the request payload that corresponds to the project.