Google Maps JavaScript URL Signing

Description

Sign a URL for Google Maps Platform requests.

Warning:It is not recommended to use this library in client side applications to avoid exposing the secret used to sign the URL.

Install

Available via npm as the package@googlemaps/url-signature.

npm i @googlemaps/url-signature

Documentation

Check out thereference documentation.

Example

Create a signature for a Google Maps requestURLor url string.

constsignature=createSignature("https://example /some-path?foo=bar","secret");

Returns a newURLhaving a signature parameter.

constsignedUrl=signUrl("https://example /some-path?foo=bar","secret");
signedUrl.href;// "https://example /some-path?foo=bar&signature=..."

Create a signature for a path and query string using Hmac SHA1.

constsignature=createSignatureForPathAndQuery("/some-path?foo=bar","secret");

Note:This is not an officially supported Google product