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vultr-promise
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A promise based vultr api wrapper
BEWARE: This module is experimental and may change in the future, use at your own risk!
const vultr = require('vultr-promise')
const API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
vultr.createServer(API_KEY, {
DCID: 9, // Frankfurt, Germany
VPSPLANID: 201, // $5 VC2 - 1024 MB, 25 GB SSD
OSID: 215, // Ubuntu 16.04 x64
enable_ipv6: 'yes',
hostname: 'myvps',
SSHKEYID: '577fb3487211e'
}).then(function (response) {
console.log('Created VPS with SUBID', response.SUBID)
}).catch(console.error)
Official Vultr API documentaion
/v1/account/
/v1/app/
/v1/auth/
/v1/backup/
/v1/block/
/v1/dns/
/v1/firewall/
/v1/iso/
/v1/os/
/v1/plans/
/v1/regions/
/v1/reservedip/
/v1/server/
/v1/snapshot/
/v1/sshkey/
/v1/startupscript/
/v1/user
Any method that requires an API key needs to have the API key as the first argument.
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A promise based vultr api wrapper
We found that vultr-promise 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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