Airtable315 words
airtable = new Airtable({ apiKey: Deno.env.get("airtable_pat"), baseId: "appXSrKDlwbAijRmD", tableName: "All content", }); // Sample data from: https://blog.airtable.com/database-vs-spreadsheet/ const results = await airtable.select(); console.log(results); Make sure to change: apiKey if you
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airtable = new Airtable({ apiKey: Deno.env.get("airtable_pat"), baseId: "appXSrKDlwbAijRmD", tableName: "All content", }); // Sample data from: https://blog.airtable.com/database-vs-spreadsheet/ const results = await airtable.select(); console.log(results); Make sure to change: apiKey if you
Browserless434 words
as browserless. Make an API call to the /scrape API. Section titled “Make an API call to the /scrape API” Check the documentation for the /scrape API and form your
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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. Section titled “Sign up to Browserless and grab your API Key” Copy your API Key from https://cloud.browserless.io/account/ and save it as
Make an API call to the /scrape API
an API call to the /scrape API. Section titled “Make an API call to the /scrape API” Check the documentation for the /scrape API and form your request. For example,
Authentication284 words
Be sure to audit all your dependencies recursively for such vals. API Token Lifecycles. Section titled “API Token Lifecycles” API Tokens come with configurable expiration dates. We strongly recommend setting
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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
“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
API Token Lifecycles
API Token Lifecycles. Section titled “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
Google Sheets1356 words
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. Section titled “Use Pipedream’s
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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
Accounts API. Section titled “Use 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
1. Sign up for Pipedream and retrieve your API key
Pipedream and retrieve your API key. Section titled “1. Sign up for Pipedream and retrieve your API key” Sign up for Pipedream and visit https://pipedream.com/settings/user. Find the API Key section
2. Add that key as a Val Town environment variable
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
your own Google Cloud service 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,
1. Create a Google Cloud service account
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. Section titled “b. Enable the Google Sheets API” Open the Google Sheets API page, then double check if the correct project is selected. Once
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
Overview103 words
Town’s REST API should not be confused with HTTP triggers, which allow you to create your own custom HTTP endpoints within vals. API Reference Interactive reference documentation for our API
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Town’s REST API should not be confused with HTTP triggers, which allow you to create your own custom HTTP endpoints within vals. API Reference Interactive reference documentation for our API
Val Town Docs232 words
Store and retrieve any data OpenAI Use the OpenAI API Email Send emails API and SDK. Section titled “API and SDK” REST API Access Val Town programmatically JavaScript SDK Interact
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this page. Val Town is a collaborative website to write and scale serverless JavaScript. Create APIs, crons, and store data – in your browser, deployed in miliseconds. What is a
Val Town Standard Library
and retrieve structured data Blob Storage Store and retrieve any data OpenAI Use the OpenAI API Email Send emails
API and SDK
API and SDK. Section titled “API and SDK” REST API Access Val Town programmatically JavaScript SDK Interact with Val Town from JavaScript
Web scraping439 words
large language models, advanced image generation models, and previously, also open-source models.[11][12] API call to external services. Section titled “API call to external services” See the Hosted Puppeteer guide for
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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. Section titled “API call to external services” See the Hosted Puppeteer guide for using Browserless. Also check out Browserbase examples: browserbase and browserbaseUtils.
Steel271 words
started with Puppeteer is to get your Steel API key and remix this val. Remix this Steel Puppeteer val. Get your free Steel API key. Add it to your Environment
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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. Since Val Town can’t
Quick start with Puppeteer
started with Puppeteer is to get your Steel API key and remix this val. Remix this Steel Puppeteer val. Get your free Steel API key. Add it to your Environment
Quick start with Playwright
this Steel Playwright val. Get your free Steel API key. Add it to your Environment Variables (via left sidebar of your val) as STEEL_API_KEY. Set TMPDIR to /tmp in your
JavaScript SDK427 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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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 fetch210 words
Javascript Fetch API due to extra network hops. Usage. Section titled “Usage” After importing std/fetch, the fetch method is used with the same signature as the Javascript Fetch API. ExampleRun
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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);