etherpad-api

Promised based query to etherpad-lite

• how it works
• configuration
• use
• full example
• class use
• other stuff
  • changelog
  • run the tests
  • alternatives

how it works

It uses request-promise-native to call each Etherpad API endpoints

The API are similar

• Methods names are identical to the API documentation
• The same goes for the params You just have to pass them as an object

But there is some differences:

• Etherpad-api will reject any Etherpad response which code isn't 0
• All errors will be created by http-errors
• It will error if you try to call an endpoint that isn't implemented on the Etherpad API version you're using

configuration

const Etherpad = require('@hiswe/etherpad-api')

const etherpad = new Etherpad({
  apiKey: `6b95f6d270f4f719f1b70e8ad2f742deef94c5bccee7d495250c0fbb8cecefc7`,
  // API KEY
  url: `http://my-etherpad-server`,
  // default: http://0.0.0.0:9001 (local etherpad server)
  // full URL to your etherpad server
  apiVersion: `1.0.0`
  // default: latest (1.2.13)
  // If you want to prevent your application from calling unsupported methods
  timeout: 7000
  // default: 1000
  // request timeout
})

// now you have access to all etherpad methods…

use

As an example: calling getHTML

etherpad
  .getHTML({ padID: `my-pad` })
  .then(data => console.log(data))
  .catch(error => console.log(error))

if you don't want to error on etherpad errors: add false as the second parameter

etherpad
  // add `false` as the second parameter
  .getHTML({ padID: `a-pad-that-does-not-exist` }, false)
  .then(data => {
    // data will be null because “padID does not exist”
    assert.equal(data, null)
    console.log(data)
  })
  .catch(error => console.log(error))

full example

const express = require('express')
const Etherpad = require('@hiswe/etherpad-api')

const app = express()
const etherpad = new Etherpad({
  url: `http://my-etherpad-server`,
  apiKey: `6b95f6d270f4f719f1b70e8ad2f742deef94c5bccee7d495250c0fbb8cecefc7`,
})

app.get(`/pads/:padID`, (req, res) => {
  const { padID } = req.params
  etherpad
    .getHTML({ padID })
    .then(padData => res.send(padData))
    .catch(error => res.status(error.statusCode).json(error))
})

class use

alternatively you could use/extend the original class

const Etherpad = require('@hiswe/etherpad-api')

class MyEtherpad extends Etherpad {
  // …you can extend the class here
}

const etherpad = new MyEtherpad({
  url: `http://my-etherpad-server`,
  apiKey: `6b95f6d270f4f719f1b70e8ad2f742deef94c5bccee7d495250c0fbb8cecefc7`,
})

other stuff

changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

run the tests

• clone the project
• npm install
• npm test

alternatives

• etherpad-lite-client