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Slab is a developer- and AI-friendly card-data platform. The API is the product.

Slab is an HTTP API for trading-card data. This portal is not the product. It exists to do two things: mint the API keys that get you in, and host these docs. There is no collection UI here — you build that yourself, or drive it from the CLI. Everything you can see, you can pull, script, and remix.

Start here: three steps

1 · Get a key (right here in the portal)

Head to API Keys and mint one. The raw key shows once, so copy it. That key is your entire identity to the API — no other portal setup needed.

2 · Drive it with the pre-built CLI

Don't write code yet. The slabCLI is a ready-made client for the whole API — search the catalog, add the copies you own, and value your collection, all from the terminal. It's the fastest way to learn what the platform can do.

💡The First Run guide walks you from install to your first command. The CLI reference goes deeper — and the CLI documents itself (slab lists every command).

3 · Build your own thing

Once the CLI feels familiar and you know what data is on tap, point your own project at the same endpoints — a portfolio dashboard, a break tracker, a Discord bot, an AI agent that appraises your rips. The CLI is built on nothing you can't use: import slab-schemas for typed Python request/response models, or hit the raw HTTP API from any language.