Browserless402 words
grab your API Key. Copy your API Key from https://cloud.browserless.io/account/ and save it as a Val Town environment variable as browserless. Make an API call to the /scrape API. Check
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Browserless
to search the final document. Services like Browserless provide APIs to interact with a hosted headless browser. For example, their /scrape API. Here’s how to use Browserless and Val Town
Sign up to Browserless and grab your API Key
Sign up to Browserless and grab your API Key. Copy your API Key from https://cloud.browserless.io/account/ and save it as a Val Town environment variable as browserless.
Make an API call to the /scrape API
an API call to the /scrape API. Check the documentation for the /scrape API and form your request. For example, here’s how you scrape the introduction paragraph of OpenAI’s wikipedia
Authentication276 words
when doing so. Be sure to audit all your dependencies recursively for such vals. API Token Lifecycles. API Tokens come with configurable expiration dates. We strongly recommend setting expiration dates
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Authentication
Val Town’s REST API supports Bearer Token authentication. You can create and manage your API tokens on the API Tokens page. If you’re using the Val Town API from within
Scopes
Val Town API tokens are scoped to read/write scopes for: val – vals. user – user account details. blob – blob storage. sqlite – sqlite database. email – ability to
API Token Lifecycles
API Token Lifecycles. API Tokens come with configurable expiration dates. We strongly recommend setting expiration dates for your tokens and rotating them regularly. If you accidentally leak or misplace an
Google Sheets1211 words
the Google Sheets API: Use Pipedream’s Accounts API to fetch a fresh OAuth access token at runtime. Use your own Google Cloud service account. Use Pipedream’s Accounts API. Pipedream provides
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Google Sheets
on a schedule. You have two options for authenticating with the Google Sheets API: Use Pipedream’s Accounts API to fetch a fresh OAuth access token at runtime. Use your own
Use Pipedream’s Accounts API
Pipedream’s Accounts API. Pipedream provides a workflow automation product for developers. Workflows are built as a sequence of steps — pre-built actions for thousands of APIs or custom code —
1. Sign up for Pipedream and retrieve your API key
your API key. Sign up for Pipedream and visit https://pipedream.com/settings/user. Find the API Key section and copy your key: You’ll use this key to authenticate requests to the Accounts API,
2. Add that key as a Val Town environment variable
2. Add that key as a Val Town environment variable. Add the API key as an environment variable in Val Town. In this example, we’ve named the environment variable pipedream_api_key:
6. Fetch a Google Sheets access token and use it in your val
baseURL = `https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/${sheetID}/values`; async function fetchAccessToken() { const response = await fetch( `https://api.pipedream.com/v1/accounts/${accountID}?include_credentials=1`, { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${Deno.env.get("pipedream_api_key")}`, }, }, ); if (!response.ok) { throw new Error(`Error fetching access
Use your own Google Cloud service account
account. Authenticating with the Google Sheets API is a bit tricky, but we walk you through it below. It should only take a few minutes, and only needs to be
1. Create a Google Cloud service account
1. Create a Google Cloud service account. Creating a Google Cloud service account is the recommended way to authenticate to the Google Sheets API.
b. Enable the Google Sheets API
b. Enable the Google Sheets API. Open the Google Sheets API page, then double check if the correct project is selected. Once you have made sure that you are using
3. Create a val to send data
To interact with the Google Sheets API, use the @mattx.gsheet_call wrapper. This automates requesting an access token from Google to access the Google Sheets API. It requires 4 arguments: The
Overview104 words
REST API should not be confused with HTTP vals, which are a way for you to create your own custom HTTP endpoints. API Reference Interactive reference documentation for our API
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Overview
REST API should not be confused with HTTP vals, which are a way for you to create your own custom HTTP endpoints. API Reference Interactive reference documentation for our API
Val Town Docs211 words
Use the OpenAI API Email Send emails Proxied Fetch Make requests from anonymous IP addresses API and SDK. You can access Val Town programmatically via our REST API or JavaScript
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Val Town Docs
this page. Val Town is a collaborative website to create and scale JavaScript functions. Create APIs, crons, store data – all from the browser, and deployed in miliseconds. What is
Val Town Standard Library
Val Town Standard Library. Our standard library provides free hosted services. SQLite Store and retrieve structured data Blob Storage Store and retrieve any data OpenAI Use the OpenAI API Email
API and SDK
API and SDK. You can access Val Town programmatically via our REST API or JavaScript SDK.
Steel118 words
to get your Steel API key and fork this val. Get your free Steel API key at https://app.steel.dev/settings/api-keys. Add it to your Val Town Environment Variables as STEEL_API_KEY. Fork this
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Steel
plain text. Open in ChatGPT Ask questions about this page. Steel is an open-source browser API that lets you control fleets of browsers in the cloud.
Quick start
to get your Steel API key and fork this val. Get your free Steel API key at https://app.steel.dev/settings/api-keys. Add it to your Val Town Environment Variables as STEEL_API_KEY. Fork this
Web scraping416 words
has developed several large language models, advanced image generation models, and previously, also open-source models.[11][12] API call to external services. See the Hosted Puppeteer guide for using Browserless. Also check
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Web scraping
scrape websites, either by fetching HTML and using a parsing library, or by making an API call to an external service that runs a headless browser for you.
Parsing HTML
This makes it a good fit for cheerio which parses HTML markup and provides an API for traversing/manipulating the resulting data structure. We also recommend node-html-parser and linkedom. ExampleRun in
API call to external services
API call to external services. See the Hosted Puppeteer guide for using Browserless. Also check out Browserbase examples: browserbase and browserbaseUtils.
JavaScript SDK414 words
authenticated with an API token, so create an API token on Val Town, and set it in your terminal environment: Setting your Val Town API Token export VAL_TOWN_API_KEY=your api token…
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JavaScript SDK
questions about this page. The Val Town TypeScript SDK lets you interact with our REST API from the comfort of a typed client that works well with editor autocomplete. Reference
Getting started in Val Town
await vt.me.likes.list({}); console.log(likes); Authentication is set by the VAL_TOWN_API_KEY environment variable, which is automatically set within Val Town. You can control the API scopes of that key in your val’s
Getting started in Node.js
authenticated with an API token, so create an API token on Val Town, and set it in your terminal environment: Setting your Val Town API Token export VAL_TOWN_API_KEY=your api token…
Proxied fetch207 words
calling the Javascript Fetch API due to extra network hops. Usage. After importing std/fetch, the fetch method is used with the same signature as the Javascript Fetch API. ExampleRun in
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Proxied fetch
page as plain text. Open in ChatGPT Ask questions about this page. The Javascript Fetch API is directly available within a Val. However sometimes fetch calls are blocked by the
Usage
the same signature as the Javascript Fetch API. ExampleRun in Val Town ↗ import { fetch } from "https://esm.town/v/std/fetch"; let result = await fetch("https://api64.ipify.org?format=json"); let json = await result.json(); console.log(json.ip);
Blob Storage366 words
await blob.copy("myKey", "myKeyCopy"); Move. Move import { blob } from "https://esm.town/v/std/blob"; await blob.move("myKey", "myKeyNew"); Lower-level API. We provide access to the lower-level getter and setters, which are useful if you
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Lower-level API
Lower-level API. We provide access to the lower-level getter and setters, which are useful if you are storing non-JSON or binary data, need to stream in your response or request