## Prerequisites

- A Mirage [platform account](https://platform.mirage.app/).
- An API key

**Authentication**  Every request to the Mirage API must include an `x-api-key` header containing your API key. You can create an API key in the [platform dashboard](https://platform.mirage.app/).

The Mirage API provides a simple interface to state-of-the-art video captioning, generation, and more.