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Can I use Witty without the dashboard?

Yes. If you only need text checking, you can run the NLP API on its own and sign in with an API key.

The dashboard is what provides accounts, teams, the shared dictionary and organisation-wide language settings. If you do not need those, you can skip deploying it entirely and point the extension straight at your NLP API.

Set it up

  1. Open the extension's options page: chrome://extensions → Witty → Details → Extension options.
  2. Choose API key mode.
  3. Enter your NLP API URL and your API key, then save. Saving signs you out of any account you were using, because credentials are only ever valid for the server they came from.

The key is sent to your NLP API with each request. It is stored only in your own browser, together with the address it belongs to, so it is never sent anywhere else. If you later point the extension at a different server, the key is not carried across.

What still works

  • Checking text on any website, exactly as normal.
  • Suggestions, explanations and replacing text.
  • Ignoring a suggestion once.
  • Enabling and disabling Witty per website. These settings are kept in your browser rather than synced to an account.
  • Spell checking, AI suggestions and per-category settings, which move to the extension's options page. See How do I customize Witty?

What is not available

These features are provided by the dashboard, so they are hidden rather than shown and left to fail:

  • Ignore permanently: adding a word to your dictionary. Ignoring once still works.
  • Teams: invitations, shared settings and administrator controls.
  • Syncing between browsers: your settings stay on the machine where you set them.
  • The links from the extension into the dashboard.

Where do I get an API key?

API keys are issued by whoever operates your NLP API. If that is your own organisation, ask the person who deployed it. If you are the operator, see the deployment documentation for how to create one.

Running both?

If you deploy the dashboard as well, use Account mode instead. See How do I connect Witty to my own server?