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							|  |  | [](https://travis-ci.org/github/mhart/aws4)
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							|  |  | A small utility to sign vanilla Node.js http(s) request options using Amazon's
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							|  |  | [AWS Signature Version 4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html).
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							|  |  | If you want to sign and send AWS requests in a modern browser, or an environment like [Cloudflare Workers](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/), then check out [aws4fetch](https://github.com/mhart/aws4fetch) – otherwise you can also bundle this library for use [in older browsers](./browser).
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							|  |  | The only AWS service that *doesn't* support v4 as of 2020-05-22 is
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							|  |  | [SimpleDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSimpleDB/latest/DeveloperGuide/SDB_API.html)
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							|  |  | (it only supports [AWS Signature Version 2](https://github.com/mhart/aws2)).
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							|  |  | It also provides defaults for a number of core AWS headers and
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							|  |  | request parameters, making it very easy to query AWS services, or
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							|  |  | build out a fully-featured AWS library.
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							|  |  | Example
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							|  |  | ```javascript
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							|  |  | var https = require('https')
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							|  |  | var aws4  = require('aws4')
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							|  |  | // to illustrate usage, we'll create a utility function to request and pipe to stdout
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							|  |  | function request(opts) { https.request(opts, function(res) { res.pipe(process.stdout) }).end(opts.body || '') }
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							|  |  | // aws4 will sign an options object as you'd pass to http.request, with an AWS service and region
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							|  |  | var opts = { host: 'my-bucket.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com', path: '/my-object', service: 's3', region: 'us-west-1' }
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							|  |  | // aws4.sign() will sign and modify these options, ready to pass to http.request
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							|  |  | aws4.sign(opts, { accessKeyId: '', secretAccessKey: '' })
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							|  |  | // or it can get credentials from process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, etc
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							|  |  | aws4.sign(opts)
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							|  |  | // for most AWS services, aws4 can figure out the service and region if you pass a host
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							|  |  | opts = { host: 'my-bucket.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com', path: '/my-object' }
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							|  |  | // usually it will add/modify request headers, but you can also sign the query:
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							|  |  | opts = { host: 'my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com', path: '/?X-Amz-Expires=12345', signQuery: true }
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							|  |  | // and for services with simple hosts, aws4 can infer the host from service and region:
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							|  |  | opts = { service: 'sqs', region: 'us-east-1', path: '/?Action=ListQueues' }
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							|  |  | // and if you're using us-east-1, it's the default:
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							|  |  | opts = { service: 'sqs', path: '/?Action=ListQueues' }
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							|  |  | aws4.sign(opts)
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							|  |  | console.log(opts)
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							|  |  | /*
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							|  |  | {
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							|  |  |   host: 'sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
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							|  |  |   path: '/?Action=ListQueues',
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							|  |  |   headers: {
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							|  |  |     Host: 'sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
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							|  |  |     'X-Amz-Date': '20121226T061030Z',
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							|  |  |     Authorization: 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=ABCDEF/20121226/us-east-1/sqs/aws4_request, ...'
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							|  |  |   }
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							|  |  | }
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							|  |  | */
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							|  |  | // we can now use this to query AWS
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							|  |  | request(opts)
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							|  |  | /*
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							|  |  | <?xml version="1.0"?>
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							|  |  | <ListQueuesResponse xmlns="https://queue.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-11-05/">
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							|  |  | ...
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							|  |  | */
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							|  |  | // aws4 can infer the HTTP method if a body is passed in
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							|  |  | // method will be POST and Content-Type: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8'
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							|  |  | request(aws4.sign({ service: 'iam', body: 'Action=ListGroups&Version=2010-05-08' }))
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							|  |  | /*
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							|  |  | <ListGroupsResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
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							|  |  | ...
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							|  |  | */
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							|  |  | // you can specify any custom option or header as per usual
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							|  |  | request(aws4.sign({
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							|  |  |   service: 'dynamodb',
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							|  |  |   region: 'ap-southeast-2',
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							|  |  |   method: 'POST',
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							|  |  |   path: '/',
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							|  |  |   headers: {
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							|  |  |     'Content-Type': 'application/x-amz-json-1.0',
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							|  |  |     'X-Amz-Target': 'DynamoDB_20120810.ListTables'
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							|  |  |   },
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							|  |  |   body: '{}'
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							|  |  | }))
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							|  |  | /*
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							|  |  | {"TableNames":[]}
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							|  |  | ...
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							|  |  | */
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							|  |  | // The raw RequestSigner can be used to generate CodeCommit Git passwords
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							|  |  | var signer = new aws4.RequestSigner({
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							|  |  |   service: 'codecommit',
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							|  |  |   host: 'git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
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							|  |  |   method: 'GIT',
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							|  |  |   path: '/v1/repos/MyAwesomeRepo',
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							|  |  | })
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							|  |  | var password = signer.getDateTime() + 'Z' + signer.signature()
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							|  |  | // see example.js for examples with other services
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							|  |  | ```
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							|  |  | API
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							|  |  | ### aws4.sign(requestOptions, [credentials])
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							|  |  | Calculates and populates any necessary AWS headers and/or request
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							|  |  | options on `requestOptions`. Returns `requestOptions` as a convenience for chaining.
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							|  |  | `requestOptions` is an object holding the same options that the Node.js
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							|  |  | [http.request](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback)
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							|  |  | function takes.
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							|  |  | The following properties of `requestOptions` are used in the signing or
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							|  |  | populated if they don't already exist:
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							|  |  | - `hostname` or `host` (will try to be determined from `service` and `region` if not given)
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							|  |  | - `method` (will use `'GET'` if not given or `'POST'` if there is a `body`)
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							|  |  | - `path` (will use `'/'` if not given)
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							|  |  | - `body` (will use `''` if not given)
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							|  |  | - `service` (will try to be calculated from `hostname` or `host` if not given)
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							|  |  | - `region` (will try to be calculated from `hostname` or `host` or use `'us-east-1'` if not given)
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							|  |  | - `signQuery` (to sign the query instead of adding an `Authorization` header, defaults to false)
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							|  |  | - `headers['Host']` (will use `hostname` or `host` or be calculated if not given)
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							|  |  | - `headers['Content-Type']` (will use `'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8'`
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							|  |  |   if not given and there is a `body`)
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							|  |  | - `headers['Date']` (used to calculate the signature date if given, otherwise `new Date` is used)
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							|  |  | Your AWS credentials (which can be found in your
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							|  |  | [AWS console](https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/securityCredentials))
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							|  |  | can be specified in one of two ways:
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							|  |  | - As the second argument, like this:
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							|  |  | ```javascript
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							|  |  | aws4.sign(requestOptions, {
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							|  |  |   secretAccessKey: "<your-secret-access-key>",
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							|  |  |   accessKeyId: "<your-access-key-id>",
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							|  |  |   sessionToken: "<your-session-token>"
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							|  |  | })
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							|  |  | ```
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							|  |  | - From `process.env`, such as this:
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							|  |  | ```
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							|  |  | export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="<your-access-key-id>"
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							|  |  | export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="<your-secret-access-key>"
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							|  |  | export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="<your-session-token>"
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							|  |  | ```
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							|  |  | (will also use `AWS_ACCESS_KEY` and `AWS_SECRET_KEY` if available)
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							|  |  | The `sessionToken` property and `AWS_SESSION_TOKEN` environment variable are optional for signing
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							|  |  | with [IAM STS temporary credentials](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_temp_use-resources.html).
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							|  |  | Installation
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							|  |  | ------------
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							|  |  | With [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) do:
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							|  |  | ```
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							|  |  | npm install aws4
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							|  |  | ```
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							|  |  | Can also be used [in the browser](./browser).
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							|  |  | Thanks
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							|  |  | Thanks to [@jed](https://github.com/jed) for his
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							|  |  | [dynamo-client](https://github.com/jed/dynamo-client) lib where I first
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							|  |  | committed and subsequently extracted this code.
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							|  |  | Also thanks to the
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							|  |  | [official Node.js AWS SDK](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js) for giving
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							|  |  | me a start on implementing the v4 signature.
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