WebTender API Client for Node.js

This is a Node JS implementation of WebTender's REST API HTTP Client. You should use this lightweight package to easily start using the API.

If you are NOT using Node.js you can use this package as an implementation example.

You can create your API Key and secret from the API Key Manager in the WebTender Console.

Requirements

Node / Bun or Deno is required to use this package. ES Module support only (import not require.)

We recommend the latest stable version of Node.

• Tested on Node v20.8.0

Minimum requirements:

• Fetch API Node v18.0+

node-fetch may allow for earlier versions

Authentication

WebTender's API uses API keys to authenticate requests along with a HMAC signature (see implementation code.) The signature may be tricky to implement, so we recommend using this package to get started.

The client will automatically look for a local .env file to get the API key and secret.

Place your API key in a .env

WEBTENDER_API_KEY=your-api-key
WEBTENDER_API_SECRET=your-api-secret

Simply construct

import WebTenderClient from '@webtender/api-client-node';
import dotenv from 'dotenv';

// Load .env
dotenv.config();

const client = new WebTenderClient();

Alternatively use the constructor to pass the API key and secret.

import WebTenderClient from '@webtender/api-client-node';

const client = new WebTenderClient('your-api-key', 'your-api-secret');

Make GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE requests

The client exposes the following methods to make requests to the API.

client.get(path, params?: Record<string, any>, optionalFetchOptions);
client.post(path, params?: Record<string, any>, optionalFetchOptions);
client.patch(path, params?: Record<string, any>, optionalFetchOptions);
client.put(path, params?: Record<string, any>, optionalFetchOptions);
client.delete(path, params?: Record<string, any>, optionalFetchOptions);

The underlying fetch api is used, you can pass in any valid fetch options as the third argument. For example, to add a custom header.

See fetch api "options" docs

Example

import WebTenderClient from '@webtender/api-client-node';
import dotenv from 'dotenv';

// Load .env
dotenv.config();

async function listServers() {
    const client = new WebTenderClient();
    const response = await client.get('v1/servers');
    const servers = await response.json();
    console.log(servers);
}

listServers();

Testing

You can override the default API endpoint by setting the WEBTENDER_API_BASE_URL environment variable.

WEBTENDER_API_BASE_URL=https://api.webtender.host/api

Or in your code:

import WebTenderClient from '@webtender/api-client-node';

const client = new WebTenderClient();
client.setBaseUrl('https://api.webtender.host/api');