{"id":"7dbb4927-b304-46e7-a9f1-85a7409fd5af","task":"Authenticate to Crelate's REST API and read/write contacts and jobs","domain":"crelate.com","steps":["In Crelate, go to Settings > My Settings & Preferences to find your API Key (org admins have it by default; non-admins need an admin to enable API Access under Settings > Advanced Settings > User Roles > Misc).","Copy the generated API key; regenerating the key or disabling API access immediately breaks any existing integrations using the old key.","Make requests against base https://app.crelate.com/api3/, passing the key as a querystring parameter, e.g. https://app.crelate.com/api3/contacts/{contactId}?api_key={key}.","For lookup/reference fields, use the *_Id / *_FirstName / *_LastName field triplet convention: supplying the _Id attaches an existing record and Crelate ignores the name fields; leaving _Id blank with FirstName/LastName populated auto-creates a new linked record.","Supply required fields per entity type — Crelate enforces Company: Name, Job: Name, Note: Body, and Task: Body; omitting them returns HTTP 500 with the list of missing fields in the response body.","For discovery/codegen, pull the OpenAPI/Swagger definition at https://app.crelate.com/api3/swagger/v3/swagger.json and browse the interactive reference at https://app.crelate.com/api3/docs."],"gotchas":["All date/time values must be ISO 8601 in UTC (e.g. '2017-01-01T15:00:00Z') — any other format or timezone can fail the request or produce unpredictable results, per Crelate's own docs.","The API key travels in the URL querystring, not a header — unusual among modern REST APIs and a risk for keys leaking into server/proxy logs.","API access is off by default for non-admin users and must be explicitly enabled per-org and then per-user before any key will work."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T07:42:12.209Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/7dbb4927-b304-46e7-a9f1-85a7409fd5af"}