VK API SDK for Node.js
npm install node-vk-sdkVK API SDK for Node.js
To install the stable version:
``bash`
npm install --save node-vk-sdk
This assumes you are using npm as your package manager.
If you don’t, you can access these files on unpkg, download them, or point your package manager to them.
You can import SDK using ES6 modules:
`typescript`
import {VKApi, ConsoleLogger} from 'node-vk-sdk'
Or using require:
`typescript`
const {VKApi, ConsoleLogger} = require('node-vk-sdk')
`typescript
import {VKApi, ConsoleLogger} from 'node-vk-sdk'
let api = new VKApi({
logger: new ConsoleLogger()
})
api.usersGet({ userIds: ['1'] })
.then(response => {
console.log(response)
})
`
`typescript`
interface VKApiOptions {
lang?: string|number,
testMode?: number,
logger?: BaseLogger,
token?: string,
timeout?: number,
requestsPerSecond?: number,
useQueue?: boolean
}
* `lang?` - Determines the language for the data to be displayed on. For example country and city names.en – English, ru – Russian, ua – Ukrainian, be – Belorussian, es – Spanish, fi – finnish, de – German, it – Italian.
If you use a non-cyrillic language, cyrillic symbols will be transtiterated automatically account.getInfo
Numeric format from is supported as well.
* `test_mode?` - 1 – allows to send requests from a native app without switching it on for all users.
* `logger?` - Logger class that implements BaseLogger
No logging will be used logger is not passed
* `token?` - Access token
* `timeout?` - Network timeout in ms
* `requestsPerSecond` - Maximum requests per second, default is 3
* `useQueue` - If useQueue is true, then SDK will limit number of requests per second at requestsPerSecond
All api methods returning Promise, so you can use them as Promise or as async functions.
Methods arguments are described in interfaces, so you need to pass object implementing that interface, for example users.get props interface:
`typescript`
export interface UsersGetParams {
/**
* User IDs or screen names ('screen_name'). By default, current user ID.
*/
user_ids?: string[],
/**
* Profile fields to return. Sample values: 'nickname', 'screen_name', 'sex', 'bdate' (birthdate), 'city', 'country', 'timezone', 'photo', 'photo_medium', 'photo_big', 'has_mobile', 'contacts', 'education', 'online', 'counters', 'relation', 'last_seen', 'activity', 'can_write_private_message', 'can_see_all_posts', 'can_post', 'universities',
*/
fields?: string[],
/**
* Case for declension of user name and surname: 'nom' — nominative (default), 'gen' — genitive , 'dat' — dative, 'acc' — accusative , 'ins' — instrumental , 'abl' — prepositional
*/
name_case?: string,
/**
* access token
*/
access_token?: string
}
All props interfaces have accessToken property, that token will be used instead of token passed to VKApi
Calling example:
`typescript
api.usersGet({ user_ids: ['1'] })
.then(response => {
console.log(response)
})
// or we can call it as async function
let response = await api.usersGet({ user_ids: ['1'] })
`
Direct call methods:
`typescript
// makes plain call & returns contents of "response" property of server response
public async call(method: string, params: Object): Promise
// Makes api call and if there was
// server-side error or requests limit was reached
// repeats the call after some timeout
public async callWithRetry(method: string, params: Object): Promise
`
To receive group updates using Bots Long Poll API use BotsLongPollUpdatesProvider class:
`typescript
import {VKApi, ConsoleLogger, BotsLongPollUpdatesProvider} from 'node-vk-sdk'
let api = new VKApi({
token: 'GROUP_TOKEN_HERE',
logger: new ConsoleLogger()
})
let updatesProvider = new BotsLongPollUpdatesProvider(api, GROUP_ID_HERE)
updatesProvider.getUpdates(updates => {
console.log('got updates: ', updates)
})
``