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key_missing — the widget never sent an API key

What happened

The widget made a request to api.podsaid.com without the X-Embed-Key header. Server rejected with 401. This almost always means the api-key attribute is empty, misspelled, or missing on the <ask-pod-widget> tag.

Fix in 60 seconds

  1. Open the page you pasted the snippet on and view source.
  2. Confirm the tag reads api-key="pk_live_..." — hyphen, not underscore. It’s api-key, not api_key or apiKey.
  3. Grab the current value from Console → Keys. We only display the plaintext once at mint, but the snippet page always has the current usable key substituted in.
  4. If your CMS strips custom attributes, wrap the snippet in a raw-HTML block (Squarespace: Code Block; WordPress: Custom HTML block).