ge-tracker-api

Unofficial API client to access ge-tracker.com's API.

Installation

Using NPM:

$ npm i ge-tracker-api

Using Yarn:

$ yarn add ge-tracker-api

Usage

GE-Tracker requires a valid API key in order to consume their API endpoints. Thus, if you wish to use this package, you must have an API key.

There are two functions exposed by this module:

createClient(apiKey, opts = null) and createClientFromEnv(opts = null).

Calling createClient requires an API key to be passed in order to initialize the underlying Axios instance with your API key for all subsequent requests.

Calling createClientFromEnv will attempt to find the environment variable named GE_TRACKER_API_KEY and use that as the API key.

Env Client Example

// example.js
const { createClientFromEnv } = require('ge-tracker-api')
 
const client = createClientFromEnv()
 
client.Items.getItem(1050)
  .then(item => {
    console.log(`${item.name} has ${item.buyingQuantity} buy offers and is 
    buying for ~${item.buying}`)
  })
 

How you set the environment variable will depend on your development environment.

For bash, you can prepend the environment variable before calling a script on your path like so:

$ GE_TRACKER_API_KEY=ajosf...928h4tr node example.js

Please note that prepending your API key before a command may record your sensitive API token to your bash or shell history.

A better approach is to use something like dotenv. Take care to ensure that your environment file used by that library is added to your .gitignore file 😉