# API Overview

**Base URL:** `https://api.drylab.bio/api/v1/`&#x20;

Welcome to the DryLab API. This API allows programmatic access to paper ingestion, environment generation, and reproducibility tooling for reverse engineering computational biology papers.

### 🔑 Authentication

You can use the API for free and without an API key, but with significant rate limits.&#x20;

Instead, you can include a Google Gemini key as a header when sending a request:

```http
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
```

Instructions on how to obtain your personal Gemini API key (takes two minutes) can be found here: [https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey](https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey) (login to your Google account first.)
