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how can I access the prefect cloud graphql api using an api key? Do I somehow create a jwt token from the api key?

If you use the interactive API in the UI, it’s already authenticated. If using the Prefect Client Python object, it fetches whatever authentication is stored from
```prefect auth login --key &lt;YOUR-KEY&gt;```
but if the key is not persisted, the Client can take in an API <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/client/client.html#client-2|key>

say i am creating a new UI and want to access the cloud api from the new UI

im looking at the network tab on my browser and it shows a bearer token

In Python code it would be:
```query = """query {flow{ name, id}}"""


url = '<https://api.prefect.io>'
r = <http://requests.post|requests.post>(url, json={'query': query}, headers={"authorization": "Bearer API_TOKEN"})```