PostHog personal API key

ID posthog_personal_api_key

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Personal API key of PostHog, which gives access to the private API endpoints of a user's projects. PostHog documents the prefix phx_. Project tokens (phc_) are meant to be public and are not this datatype. The vendor does not document the length or the characters after the prefix; the regexp accepts letters and digits.

Parent datatype: API key or client secret api_key
Categories: Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens)
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Quality: 70/100 · missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: Datadog Sensitive Data Scanner, GitGuardian, GitHub secret scanning

Regular expression

^phx_[A-Za-z0-9]+$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
phx_ invalid	Prefix without the secret

Sources

doc: https://posthog.com/docs/api

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