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A dependency-free, test suite-compliant, AWS Signature Version 4 library in ES2017
const sigv4 = require('aws-sigv4');
const signature = await sigv4.sign(
secretAccessKey,
requestDate.slice(0, 8),
'us-east-1',
'host',
stringToSign
);
console.log(signature);
const sigv4 = require('aws-sigv4');
sigv4.sign(
secretAccessKey,
requestDate.slice(0, 8),
'us-east-1',
'host',
stringToSign
)
.then(signature => console.log(signature));
// Or, more specifically for S3:
const date = sigv4
.formatDateTime(new Date())
.slice(0, 8);
const credential = `${process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}/${date}/${process.env.AWS_REGION}/s3/aws4_request`;
const policy = new Buffer(
JSON.stringify({
expiration: new Date(Date.now() + 15 * 60000).toISOString(), // 15 minutes from now
conditions: [
{bucket: 'my-bucket-name'},
{key: 'my-s3-key.mov'},
{acl: 'private'},
['starts-with', '$Content-Type', 'video/'],
['content-length-range', 0, 10 * 1024 * 1024],
{'x-amz-credential': credential},
{'x-amz-algorithm': 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256'},
{'x-amz-date': date + 'T000000Z'}
]
})
)
.toString('base64');
sigv4.sign(
process.env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
date,
process.env.AWS_REGION,
's3',
policy
)
.then(signature => console.log(sigature));
See Authenticating Requests in Browser-Based Uploads Using POST (AWS Signature Version 4) as the primary use case.
FAQs
AWS Signature Version 4
The npm package aws-sigv4 receives a total of 44 weekly downloads. As such, aws-sigv4 popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that aws-sigv4 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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