# How to use the API
## Introduction
GroupSecurity API can be used to login players and hopefully in the future to add more ways to log people in.
## Add dependency
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="maven" %}
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>mikart</id>
<url></url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>eu.mikart.groupsecurity</groupId>
<artifactId>GroupSecurity-PLATFORM</artifactId>
<version>VERSION</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="gradle" %}
allprojects {
repositories {
...
maven { url '' }
}
}
dependencies {
implementation 'eu.mikart.groupsecurity:GroupSecurity-PLATFORM:VERSION'
}
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
### Spigot & Paper
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="spigot" %}
Make GroupSecurity load before your plugin inside the plugin.yml like this:
```yaml
softdepend: [GroupSecurity]
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="paper" %}
Make GroupSecurity load before your plugin inside the plugin.yml like this:
```yaml
dependencies:
server:
GroupSecurity:
load: BEFORE
```
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
## What's next?
[Making an addon](https://groupsecurity.mikart.eu/api/tutorial)
[^1]: spigot\
velocity\
bungeecord
[^2]: e.g. 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT