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The Personal API (Beta) gives you programmatic access to your own meeting notes — notes you own, notes shared with you, and notes in private folders shared with you.

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What can you build?

  • Custom AI agents – Build agents that analyze sentiment across your calls, surface recurring themes in product feedback, or combine meeting context with other data sources for deeper insights.
  • Knowledge bases & wikis – Feed your meeting notes into Notion, Confluence, or a personal wiki so your knowledge is always searchable and current.
  • Task & follow-up automation – Extract action items from your meeting notes and automatically create tasks in Linear, Jira, Todoist, or your project management tool of choice.
If you just want to chat with your notes in Claude, ChatGPT or another LLM, you can also try the Granola MCP – it’s easy to set up and optimized for AI agents.

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Who is it for?

Any workspace member on a Business or Enterprise plan can create a Personal API key. On Enterprise plans, workspace admins can enable or disable Personal API key creation via the “Allow personal API keys” toggle in Settings → Workspace.

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What can you access?

Everything in your My notes space:
  • Notes you own
  • Notes directly shared with you
  • Notes in private folders shared with you

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Getting started

  1. Open the Granola desktop app
  2. Go to Settings → API → Create new key
  3. Select Personal API key and click Generate API Key
  4. Copy your API key for use in other apps – read our documentation for examples.
On Enterprise plans, Personal API key creation must be enabled by a workspace admin.

API Documentation

Full API reference with endpoints, authentication, and examples.

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FAQs

A Business or Enterprise plan. Personal API keys are not available on Free or Pro plans.
The Personal API gives you a key for programmatic access — useful for scripts, automations, and custom integrations. The MCP uses browser-based OAuth and is designed for conversational AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Both access your own notes.
No. Personal API keys only access your own notes space. For workspace-wide access, you need an Enterprise API key.
Not currently. We recommend testing with a small number of notes in a dedicated test folder.
Yes. Personal API keys are rate limited per user: 25 requests burst capacity with a sustained rate of 5 requests/second.
Not yet — you need to poll the API for new notes. Webhooks are on our roadmap.