Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm · error

Failed to fetch API keys

Error message

Failed to fetch API keys

What it means

500 from GET /browser-extension/api-keys (admin/manager session required). The try block covers userFromSession and BrowserExtensionApiKey.whereWithUser/where, so a failure here is a database-level problem reading the browser_extension_api_keys table (missing table after a broken migration, locked DB file) or session resolution blowing up - never an auth problem, since auth is enforced by middleware before the handler.

Solutions

1. Read server logs for the underlying SQLite error.
2. Restart the server so boot migrations re-run and recreate the table if it is missing.
3. Confirm the DB file is writable and not held by another process.

await ensureAdminSession(); // validatedRequest cookie must be present and admin/manager role before the call

try { const { apiKeys } = await listExtensionApiKeys(); }
catch (e) {
  if (e.status === 500) throw new Error('Key listing failed at the DB layer - check server logs / migrate');
  if (e.status === 401 || e.status === 403) throw new Error('Session lacks admin/manager role');
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: browser_extension_api_keys table absent after an interrupted upgrade/migration; SQLITE_BUSY while another writer holds the DB; corrupted session/user row making userFromSession throw.

Common situations: Upgrading an instance whose storage volume was partially persisted; running backups that lock the SQLite file; multi-admin sessions racing.

Understand the failure class

Background: Database query failed: Internal Server Error 500s wrapping SQL, Prisma, and connection failures — what to check first — this error's family across 16 libraries.

Related errors

• Failed to create API key
• Failed to revoke API key
• Could not find an API Keys.
• ${error.message}
• ${errors[0]}

AI-assisted analysis of Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm@3aec848f28 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/063af309bbd9b9ea. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at server/endpoints/browserExtension.js:169

    }
  );

  // Internal endpoints for managing API keys
  app.get(
    "/browser-extension/api-keys",
    [validatedRequest, flexUserRoleValid([ROLES.admin, ROLES.manager])],
    async (request, response) => {
      try {
        const user = await userFromSession(request, response);
        const apiKeys = multiUserMode(response)
          ? await BrowserExtensionApiKey.whereWithUser(user)
          : await BrowserExtensionApiKey.where();

        response.status(200).json({ success: true, apiKeys });
      } catch (error) {
        console.error(error);
        response
          .status(500)
          .json({ success: false, error: "Failed to fetch API keys" });
      }
    }
  );

  app.post(
    "/browser-extension/api-keys/new",
    [validatedRequest, flexUserRoleValid([ROLES.admin, ROLES.manager])],
    async (request, response) => {
      try {
        const user = await userFromSession(request, response);
        const { apiKey, error } = await BrowserExtensionApiKey.create(
          user?.id || null
        );
        if (error) throw new Error(error);
        response.status(200).json({
          apiKey: apiKey.key,
        });

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