Set Up Your API Keys in Influencer Butler
4:33 walkthrough · published July 28, 2026 · recorded inside the app, narrated start to finish
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One panel, every key. Voiceover, Group Builder, the AI images, Product Research backfills: each needs a key. Instead of asking inside every butler, AI and Data Keys takes them once.
Included in the Beginner plan. Quick note on plans. AI and Data Keys is included in the Beginner plan, so everyone has it. On the Beginner plan the hosted AI covers a monthly allowance with no key at all; your own key always wins.
OpenAI. OpenAI first. One key powers the script writing, the captions and the AI images. Your key calls OpenAI directly and they bill your account, so the numbers here are estimates.
Chat model. Chat model picks the model Voiceover Butler writes with: best quality, balanced, fast, or cheapest.
Usage and spend cap. Usage this month: calls and estimated spend, by model. The soft spend cap warns you past a number; it never blocks a call, so set a hard cap in your OpenAI account if you need one.
Test Connection. Test Connection proves a key works and remembers when it was last tested. Run saved tests on startup re-checks every stored key when the app opens.
Keepa. Keepa is optional: with a key, Product Research backfills a product's full price and rank history the first time you look at it.
Fal and Ideogram. Fal is the cheapest provider for photographic AI images, and Ideogram the strongest for text inside images. AI Content Butler routes each style to the one that is connected and falls back to OpenAI.
The rest. YouTube Data, Google Places and Etsy keys sit below for the butlers that use them. Keys are stored encrypted on this computer.
Next step. Your next step: paste your OpenAI key, press Test Connection, and set a soft cap you would want to hear about.
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