# Access AppSearch APIs without authentication
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-appsearch-apis-without-authentication/302477
**Category:** Elastic Search
**Created:** [April 15, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-appsearch-apis-without-authentication/302477 "2022-04-15T03:49:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ntruongsinh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ntruongsinh)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-appsearch-apis-without-authentication/302477/1 "2022-04-15T03:49:48Z")
Hi everyone,
I wonder if we have anyway to disable security for AppSearch APIs when running it locally? Like searching or creating documents, we don't have to provide Authentication header?
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@Byron\_H](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Byron_H)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-appsearch-apis-without-authentication/302477/2 "2022-04-15T17:30:14Z")
Hi @ntruongsinh,
We do not provide a way to disable authentication for App Search APIs.
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### Author:  [@ntruongsinh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ntruongsinh)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-appsearch-apis-without-authentication/302477/3 "2022-04-18T02:20:59Z")
Hi @Byron_H , thank you so much for the confirmation.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-appsearch-apis-without-authentication/302477/4 "2022-11-04T08:35:09Z")