# Quick Start

## 1. Get your API Key

Your API requests are authenticated using API keys. Any request that doesn't include an API key will return an error.

Just contact us at <kopikat@opencv.ai> to get your API key and start using our API.

## 2. Make your first request

To make your first request, send an authenticated request to the /augment endpoint. This will create a new image with annotation preserved, which is nice.

{% openapi src="<https://2248363877-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FuNLzC77yfXCwM8FBH6gX%2Fuploads%2Fnpr9sCwWcxaG4oT89tEc%2Ftmp.json?alt=media&token=368726aa-38a5-4831-992e-05b1c4b345be>" path="<http://api.kopikat.co/augment>" method="post" expanded="true" %}
[tmp.json](https://2248363877-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FuNLzC77yfXCwM8FBH6gX%2Fuploads%2Fnpr9sCwWcxaG4oT89tEc%2Ftmp.json?alt=media\&token=368726aa-38a5-4831-992e-05b1c4b345be)
{% endopenapi %}

{% hint style="info" %}
*See* [examples](https://kopikat.gitbook.io/api/examples "mention") *to explore the various methods of generating images with Kopikat.*
{% endhint %}