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AWS Signature Version 4 for node.js and browser.
Notice: this project is rewrote from aws4 by ES6 for using on demand.
npm install aws4-sign --save
# or
yarn add aws4-sign
<script src="https://unpkg.com/aws4-sign"></script>
<script>
var sigs = Aws4Sign.sign(
{
service: 's3',
path: '/../../whatever?X-Amz-Expires=1234',
signQuery: true,
},
{ accessKeyId: 'a', secretAccessKey: 'b' },
);
</script>
const http = require('http');
const { sign, RequestSigner } = require('aws4-sign');
const opts = {
host: 'sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
path: '/?Action=ListQueues',
};
// assumes AWS credentials are available in process.env
sign(opts, {
accessKeyId: '<your-access-key-id>',
secretAccessKey: '<your-secret-access-key>',
});
console.log(opts);
/*
{
host: 'sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
path: '/?Action=ListQueues',
headers: {
Host: 'sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
'X-Amz-Date': '20121226T061030Z',
Authorization: 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=ABCDEF/20121226/us-east-1/sqs/aws4_request, ...'
}
}
*/
// we can now use this to query AWS using the standard node.js http API
http.request(opts, function(res) {
res.pipe(process.stdout);
}).end();
// Generate CodeCommit Git access password
const signer = new RequestSigner({
service: 'codecommit',
host: 'git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
method: 'GIT',
path: '/v1/repos/MyAwesomeRepo',
});
const password = signer.getDateTime() + 'Z' + signer.signature();
This calculates and populates the Authorization
header of requestOptions
,
and any other necessary AWS headers and/or request options. Returns
requestOptions
as a convenience for chaining.
requestOptions
is an object holding the same options that the node.js
http.request
function takes.
The following properties of requestOptions
are used in the signing or
populated if they don't already exist:
name | default |
---|---|
hostname/host | will be determined from service and region |
method | GET |
path | / |
body | '' |
service | will be calculated from hostname or host |
region | 'us-east-1' |
domain | 'amazonaws.com' |
headers['Host'] | will use hostname or host or be calculated if not given |
headers['Content-Type'] | 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8' |
headers['Date'] | new Date() |
Your AWS credentials (which can be found in your AWS console) can be specified in one of two ways:
You can config credentials
, like below:
aws4.sign(requestOptions, {
secretAccessKey: '<your-secret-access-key>',
accessKeyId: '<your-access-key-id>',
sessionToken: '<your-session-token>',
});
Or you can attach them to process.env
using
dotenv, create .env
file in your project
root, then put below code before you use aws4 sign
require('dotenv').config();
The sessionToken
property and AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
environment constiable are
optional for signing with
IAM STS temporary credentials.
FAQs
AWS Signature Version 4
The npm package aws4-sign receives a total of 28 weekly downloads. As such, aws4-sign popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that aws4-sign 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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