ideogram-install-auth

name	ideogram-install-auth
description	Install and configure Ideogram API authentication. Use when setting up a new Ideogram integration, configuring API keys, or initializing Ideogram in your project. Trigger with phrases like "install ideogram", "setup ideogram", "ideogram auth", "configure ideogram API key".
allowed-tools	Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Bash(pip:*), Bash(curl:*), Grep
version	1.10.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <[e-mail]>
tags	["saas","ideogram","api","authentication","image-generation"]
compatibility	Designed for Claude Code

Ideogram Install & Auth

Overview

Set up Ideogram API authentication for AI image generation. Ideogram provides a REST API at api.ideogram.ai for text-to-image generation, editing, remixing, upscaling, and describing images. Authentication uses an Api-Key header on every request.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ or Python 3.10+
• Ideogram account at ideogram.ai
• API key from Ideogram dashboard (Settings > API Beta)
• Payment method configured (auto top-up billing)

Instructions

Step 1: Get Your API Key

1. Log into ideogram.ai
2. Navigate to Settings (burger icon) > API Beta
3. Accept the Developer API Agreement
4. Click Manage Payment and add billing info via Stripe
5. Click Create API key -- store it immediately, it is shown only once

Step 2: Install HTTP Client

set -euo pipefail
# Node.js (no SDK required -- Ideogram uses a plain REST API)
npm install dotenv

# Python
pip install requests python-dotenv

Step 3: Configure Authentication

# Create .env file (NEVER commit to git)
echo 'IDEOGRAM_API_KEY=your-api-key-here' >> .env

# Add to .gitignore
echo '.env' >> .gitignore
echo '.env.local' >> .gitignore

Step 4: Verify Connection

// verify-ideogram.ts
import "dotenv/config";

async function verifyIdeogramAuth() {
  const response = await fetch("https://api.ideogram.ai/generate", {
    : ,
    : {
      : process..!,
      : ,
    },
    : .({
      : {
        : ,
        : ,
        : ,
        : ,
      },
    }),
  });

   (response.) {
     result =  response.();
    .(, result.[].);
    .(, result.[].);
  }  {
     err =  response.();
    .(, err);
  }
}

();