# Unable to setup tardigrade client

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/unable-to-setup-tardigrade-client/4298>\
**Category:** DCS\
**Tags:** tardigrade, uplink\
**Created:** [January 31, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/unable-to-setup-tardigrade-client/4298 "2020-01-31T17:44:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![cml](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/cml/32/1121_2.png) [@cml](https://forum.storj.io/u/cml)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/unable-to-setup-tardigrade-client/4298/1 "2020-01-31T17:44:49Z")

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I’m running macOS Catalina (10.15.3) and not being able to setup Tardigrade client properly. I’ve followed [this](https://documentation.tardigrade.io/api-reference/uplink-cli) guide but it keeps refusing my key (which I copy pasted from tardigrade panel).

The commands I did:

```
$ curl -L https://github.com/storj/storj/releases/latest/download/uplink_darwin_amd64.zip -O && unzip uplink_darwin_amd64.zip
$ ./uplink_darwin_amd64 setup
Select your satellite:
        [1] us-central-1.tardigrade.io
        [2] europe-west-1.tardigrade.io
        [3] asia-east-1.tardigrade.io
Please enter numeric choice or enter satellite address manually [1]: 2
Choose an access name ["default"]: 
Enter your API key: (redacted) [100 chars key retrieved from EU-West Tardigrade panel]
Error: uplink: api key format error: invalid api key format

```

Do you have any idea on what I’m doing wrong ? I’m using iTerm, also tried the build in terminal from macOS without success and sured I have no whitespaces or other non-visible characters in the key.

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**Author:** ![nerdatwork](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/nerdatwork/32/1135_2.png) [@nerdatwork](https://forum.storj.io/u/nerdatwork)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/unable-to-setup-tardigrade-client/4298/2 "2020-01-31T19:23:38Z")

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> [@cml](#):
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> 100 chars key

Make sure you copied whole key. I was able to recreate your error after I manually deleted last character from the key. My key has 103 characters.