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name: juicebox-install-auth description: | Install and configure Juicebox SDK/CLI authentication. Use when setting up a new Juicebox integration, configuring API keys, or initializing Juicebox in your project. Trigger with phrases like "install juicebox", "setup juicebox", "juicebox auth", "configure juicebox API key". allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:), Bash(pip:), Grep version: 1.0.0 license: MIT author: Jeremy Longshore jeremy@intentsolutions.io

Juicebox Install & Auth

Overview

Set up Juicebox SDK and configure authentication credentials for the AI-powered people search platform.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ or Python 3.10+
• Package manager (npm, pnpm, or pip)
• Juicebox account with API access
• API key from Juicebox dashboard

Instructions

Step 1: Install SDK

Copy# Node.js
npm install @juicebox/sdk

# Python
pip install juicebox-sdk

Step 2: Configure Authentication

Copy# Set environment variable
export JUICEBOX_API_KEY="your-api-key"

# Or create .env file
echo 'JUICEBOX_API_KEY=your-api-key' >> .env

Step 3: Verify Connection

Copyimport { JuiceboxClient } from '@juicebox/sdk';

const client = new JuiceboxClient({
  apiKey: process.env.JUICEBOX_API_KEY
});

const result = await client.search.test();
console.log(result.success ? 'OK' : 'Failed');

Output

• Installed SDK package in node_modules or site-packages
• Environment variable or .env file with API key
• Successful connection verification output

Error Handling

Examples

TypeScript Setup

Copyimport { JuiceboxClient } from '@juicebox/sdk';

const client = new JuiceboxClient({
  apiKey: process.env.JUICEBOX_API_KEY,
  timeout: 30000
});

Python Setup

Copyfrom juicebox import JuiceboxClient
import os

client = JuiceboxClient(
    api_key=os.environ.get('JUICEBOX_API_KEY')
)

Resources

• Juicebox Documentation
• Juicebox Dashboard
• API Reference

Next Steps

After successful auth, proceed to juicebox-hello-world for your first people search.