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akamaiwebkit
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A wrapping development kit to interface common tasks with akamai's {OPEN} API.
#AkamaiWeb SDK
This is a set of nodejs libraries use to wrap Akamai's {OPEN} APIs to help simplify the operations and interactions with Akamai for common tasks. There are 4 core libraries:
website.js
- manage changes for rules against your website configuration. Specifically perform updates for your
Web Performance products (DSD, DSA, Ion Standard, Ion Premier)tls.js
- manage TLS certificates that are used by the various website configurationsdns.js
- manage the DNS zone for FastDNS customersapiclient.js
- manage the API keys used for the above SDKsThese libraries are written in ES6, use babel if you require ES5 environments
Grunt tasks are available that wrap these libraries for common build activities.
website.js
Start with creating the WebSite object:
let WebSite = require('AkamaiWeb').WebSite;
let exampleDotCom = new WebSite();
exampleDotCom.copy("qa-www.example.com", "sage-www.example.com")
.then(data -> { console.log("Rules copied accross Akamai configurations!")});
This will use the [default] credentials in the ~/.edgerc file. Alternate object creations include:
Specifying to use the [continuous_delivery]
section in the file /cyberark/edgerc
let exampleDotCom = new WebSite({path:"/cyberark/edgerc", section: "[continuous_delivery]"});
You can alternatively specify the clientToken
, clientSecret
, accessToken
, and host
as properties of the
constructor object
let exampleDotCom = new WebSite({clientToken:"a1b2", clientSecret: "c3d4", accessToken: "e5f6", host: "g7h8.luna.akamaiapis.net"});
FAQs
A wrapping development kit to interface common tasks with akamai's {OPEN} API.
The npm package akamaiwebkit receives a total of 8 weekly downloads. As such, akamaiwebkit popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that akamaiwebkit demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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