Can I Access the `$auth` of an App in a Different Step?

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Can I access the $auth of an app in a different step? I want to use a prebuilt action to download to tmp but I need to reference the API key from a specific app.

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I guess I can just do download to tmp inside a code step and import the app prop.
I can also import the app prop in it’s own step and have the step just return the API key.

Wondering if there’s a way to reference directly.

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You can just add the app as a prop, then access the this.appName.$auth directly.

Does that help?

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Basically I want to use the prebuilt Download File To /tmp action; I need to include the API Key from an app in the URL.

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I can’t include this.$auth.api_key in the prebuilt action, because there’s no app attached with the action.

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Got it, now I’m following

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I wish you could convert a pre-built action into a code step from the menu, that would help with this

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Exactly!!

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You could export the API key from a Node.js step prior, or put the API key in an ENV var

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I did the ENV for now…

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I guess I’ll just make it a custom component since I want to add some other things to it as well.

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Yup that’s what I would do too

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Alright, only took me 15 minutes :sweat_smile: