Getting Started

Using AlchemyAPI is simple! Just follow these steps to get started processing content immediately:

Step 1: Register for an API Key

To use AlchemyAPI, you need an access key. If you do not already have an API key, you must first obtain one. This verification process takes just a few moments.

Step 2: Try some Interactive Demos

AlchemyAPI provides interactive demonstrations to illustrate the text-mining and content analysis capabilities that are at your disposal. These demos are a quick and easy way to learn more about AlchemyAPI's capabilities:

Entity Extraction Demo	Text Categorization Demo
Language Detection Demo	Keyword Extraction Demo

Step 3: Download an SDK

AlchemyAPI provides SDKs in more than a half-dozen major programming languages, simplifying the integration of text-mining and content analysis capabilities into your application. Or if you prefer, access the API directly via our Internet-accessible REST interface.

Step 4: Check out the Documentation

Detailed documentation is provided that describes all of AlchemyAPI's capabilities, including named entity extraction, text categorization, language detection, keyword / term extraction, web page cleaning, structured data / content scraping, and more!