# Welcome to PDFgen API

Here you'll find all the documentation you need to get up and running with our PDFgen API.

Let's dive in 👇

## Steps involved in using our API

1. You need to generate your API key from the [<mark style="color:blue;">developer</mark>](https://pdfgen.com/developer) page on the PDFgen app to call our API endpoints (**Note: you need to be on a paid plan to get your API key**)
2. To create any PDF you need to have a `template_id` of the PDF.&#x20;
3. To get the `template_id`, create a template on the [PDFgen](https://pdfgen.com) app
4. After you get the `template_id` use that in the create endpoint to create PDFs

## Want to jump right in?

Feeling like an eager beaver? Jump into the quick start docs and get making your first request

{% content-ref url="quick-start" %}
[quick-start](https://api.pdfgen.com/quick-start)
{% endcontent-ref %}

## Want to deep dive?

Dive a little deeper and start exploring our API reference to get an idea of everything that's possible with our API endpoints

{% content-ref url="references" %}
[references](https://api.pdfgen.com/references)
{% endcontent-ref %}