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Read community resources with a developer key. About five minutes.

1. Create an account and a key Sign in at bynefit.com/dash/login, open /dash/developers/keys and choose Create key. Give it a label (like my-side-project) and copy the token. You will only see it once. A developer key works without a team. Pick Test for a bapi_pk_test_ key while you build: the same call below answers with sample entries, and anything you submit stays in a sandbox.
2. Keep it secret Put it in an environment variable named BYNEFIT_API_KEY and never commit it. If it leaks, revoke it on the same page and make a new one.
3. Make the call Run this. The key is read from the environment variable.

curl https://bynefit.com/dash/api/v1/resources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BYNEFIT_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch('https://bynefit.com/dash/api/v1/resources', {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BYNEFIT_API_KEY}` },
});
const page = await res.json();
console.log(page.data.length, page.has_more);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    'https://bynefit.com/dash/api/v1/resources',
    headers={'Authorization': f"Bearer {os.environ['BYNEFIT_API_KEY']}"},
)
page = res.json()
print(len(page['data']), page['has_more'])

$ch = curl_init('https://bynefit.com/dash/api/v1/resources');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER     => ['Authorization: Bearer ' . getenv('BYNEFIT_API_KEY')],
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$page = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
echo count($page['data']), ' ', var_export($page['has_more'], true);

struct Page: Decodable {
    let data: [Resource]
    let hasMore: Bool
    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey { case data; case hasMore = "has_more" }
}
struct Resource: Decodable { let id: String; let name: String }

let key = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["BYNEFIT_API_KEY"] ?? ""
var req = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "https://bynefit.com/dash/api/v1/resources")!)
req.setValue("Bearer \(key)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
let (data, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: req)
let page = try JSONDecoder().decode(Page.self, from: data)

You get back JSON that looks something like this:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "res_3f9a1c07d2b84e55",
      "type": "resource",
      "name": "Atlanta Community Food Bank",
      "description": "Food distribution for metro Atlanta",
      "category": "food",
      "address": "732 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA",
      "phone": "(404) 892-9822",
      "website": "https://www.acfb.org",
      "hours": null,
      "upvote_count": 4,
      "go_website": "https://bynefit.com/go/r101w",
      "go_phone": "https://bynefit.com/go/r101p",
      "registered_on": "2026-04-21T19:45:02+00:00"
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "eyJjIjoiMjAyNi0wNC0yMSAxOTo0NTowMiIsImkiOjEwMX0",
  "has_more": true,
  "meta": {
    "source": "bynefit.com",
    "powered_by": "Bynefit Inc.",
    "license": "Public domain — free to use with attribution",
    "docs": "https://bynefit.com/docs/resources-read"
  }
}

Results are returned newest first, in pages. When has_more is true, pass next_cursor back as ?cursor= to get the next page; when it is false (and next_cursor is null) you have everything. Treat the cursor as an opaque string.

If it does not work

Next steps

• Building with an AI agent, or about to write data? Start with Test mode.
• Read Authentication to understand how your key is checked.
• Having an AI agent read your Space? Give it an agent key: read-only, short-lived, and you can pause it in one click.
• Setting up "Sign in with Bynefit" for your own app? See OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect.
• Browse Resources — read for the full field list and filters.
• Want to contribute data? See Resources — submit.