splitwise

splitwise

A JavaScript wrapper library/SDK for the Splitwise API.

Created by Keri Warr because he 💖s Splitwise.

Usage

This package can be used with Node with version at least 8.

Quickstart

Step 1:

Register your splitwise application here to get a client key and a client secret.

Step 2:

 $ npm install --save splitwise

Step 3:

const { Splitwise } = require('splitwise');
const sw = new Splitwise({
  clientKey: 'your key here',
  clientSecret: 'your secret here',
});

sw.getCurrentUser().then(console.log);

Non-trivial example

In this example, we create a new expense from the current user, to the first listed user in the given group, with the same description as the first given expense.

const { Splitwise } = require('splitwise');
const sw = new Splitwise({
  consumerKey: 'your key here',
  consumerSecret: 'your secret here',
});
const groupID = '12345678';

Promise.all([
  sw.getGroup({ groupID: groupID }),
  sw.getExpenses({ groupID: groupID }),
  sw.getCurrentUser(),
]).then(([group, expenses, me]) => sw.createDebt({
  from: group.members[0].id,
  to: me.id,
  groupID: groupID,
  description: expenses[0].description,
  amount: 100,
}));

Documentation

In order to know which parameters must or can be passed in to various methods, please refer to the original API documentation: http://dev.splitwise.com/dokuwiki/doku.php.

new Splitwise(options)

To the constructor you must pass in a consumerKey and a consumerSecret.

You may optionally pass in the following parameters: groupID, userID, expenseID, and friendID. They will be used by default for basic CRUD operations if you do not specify an ID. For example:

const sw = new Splitwise({
  ...
  groupID: '12345678',
});

sw.getGroup().then(console.log);

Wrapper methods

For any of the API methods documented on Splitwise's website, you can use it by calling the camelcase named version of the endpiont on the splitwise object (i.e. remove_user_from_group becomes sw.removeUserFromGroup()).

For some group methods such as getGroup you must pass in a groupID:

sw.getGroup({ groupID: '12345678' }).then(...);

For some expense methods, user methods, and friend methods, you must do the same.

Splitwise makes some important notes about their API that booleans, and nested parameters don't work. You don't need to worry about this. Instead of calling:

sw.createExpense({
  users__0__user_id: '23456789',
  users__1__users_id: '34567890',
  payment: 0,
});

You make simply do:

sw.createExpense({
  users: [
    { user_id: '23456789' },
    { user_id: '34567890' },
  ],
  payment: false,
});

And on that note...

sw.createDebt()

The params that must be passed in to the create_expense endpoint are a little obtuse, so there is provided this hepler method which can be used as follows:

sw.createDebt({
  from: '23456789',
  to: '34567890',
  amount: 100,
  description: 'yay!',
});

Notes

This package came about after I wrote a blog post about using this API.

License

This package is MIT licensed.