On the FRC events API documention a linked is pointed to for getting an authorization key (https://usfirst.collab.net/sf/projects/first_community_developers/ ); however, the site cannot be reached. Is there somewhere else where I can create an account to get this authorization key?
usfirst.collab.net is offline right now and other stuff is also unavailable. Namely the radio programming utility is not available. I don’t think there’s any other way to get an API key right now unfortunately.
If you need data soon, you can use The Blue Alliance’s API - http://thebluealliance.com/apidocs/
They’re currently working on API v3 for 2017: to get an Authorization Key for that you can go to The Blue Alliance - Login Required and generate a key for your TBA account. The docs aren’t out yet, but you can look at their GitHub repo (GitHub - the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance: A webapp for accessing information about the FIRST Robotics Competition.) if you’re familiar with the API already.
Note that it’s a WIP.
I was toying around with it, and you don’t seem to need a API Key to access it.
Just looked at the repo again, looks like they changed it 10 days ago. You still need to be logged in though.
Huh, so it seems to have automatically pulled the key from my logged in acct. Via cURL it doesn’t work. Thanks for the info and checking.
Yeah, the documentation on it isn’t out because it’s not final yet. We’re trying to finalize it this week. If you’re logged in, you don’t need the keys. It should make development easier. 
Yeah, we’re in the process of finishing up APIv3, it should hopefully be done in the very near future. If anyone wants to try it out, you can use the swagger spec here to get an idea of how the API looks.
The website’s back up and I’ve been accepted into the project, but I can’t seem to figure out how to obtain an authorization key. Anyone else have the same problem?