Example Lambda to fetch all "newsletter" posts from Pocket.
See the lambda code at ./src/lambda/newsletter.js.
Run it at https://pocket-newsletter-lambda.netlify.com/.
Table of Contents:
The bulk of the Pocket-specific logic is the fetchBookmarks
function, it does the following:
- fetch from Pocket API using consumer key and access token
- passes
state: 'all'
in order to get both archived and unarchived posts - uses
tag: 'newsletter'
to fetch posts tagged withnewsletter
detailType: 'complete'
means the API returns more complete data
- passes
- convert the response to a flat list of
{ title, url, excerpts, authors }
(all of those fields are strings) - return the list
See the code
async function fetchBookmarks(consumerKey, accessToken) {
const res = await axios.post('https://getpocket.com/v3/get', {
consumer_key: consumerKey,
access_token: accessToken,
tag: 'newsletter',
state: 'all',
detailType: 'complete'
});
const {list} = res.data;
// List is a key-value timestamp->entry map
const entries = Object.values(list);
return entries.map(
({
given_title,
given_url,
resolved_url,
resolved_title,
excerpt,
authors,
rest
}) => ({
...rest,
title: given_title || resolved_title,
url: given_url || resolved_url,
excerpt,
authors: authors
? Object.values(authors)
.map(({name}) => name)
.filter(Boolean)
.join(',')
: ''
})
);
}
The lambda only supports POST with a body, hence:
if (event.httpMethod !== 'POST') {
return {
statusCode: 404,
body: 'Not Found'
};
}
if (!event.body) {
return {
statusCode: 400,
body: 'Bad Request'
};
}
We support both URL-encoded form POST requests (done eg. when JS is disabled on the demo page) and JSON requests.
The body arrives either base64 encoded (if using a URL-encoded form body request) or not. This is denoted by the isBase64Encoded
flag on the event
.
Parsing a base64-encoded string in Node is done using Buffer.from(event.body, 'base64').toString('utf-8)
.
To convert the body from URL-encoded form into an object, the following function is used, which works for POSTs with simple fields.
function parseUrlEncoded(urlEncodedString) {
const keyValuePairs = urlEncodedString.split('&');
return keyValuePairs.reduce((acc, kvPairString) => {
const [k, v] = kvPairString.split('=');
acc[k] = v;
return acc;
}, {});
}
Here's the functionality in the lambda:
const {
pocket_consumer_key: pocketConsumerKey,
pocket_access_token: pocketAccessToken
} = event.isBase64Encoded
? parseUrlEncoded(Buffer.from(event.body, 'base64').toString('utf-8'))
: JSON.parse(event.body);
If the consumer key or access token are missing we send a 400:
if (!pocketConsumerKey || !pocketAccessToken) {
return {
statusCode: 400,
body: 'Bad Request'
};
}
Finally we attempt to fetchBookmarks
(that function's functionality has been broken down above).
If that fails on a request error (when axios fails, it has a response
property on the error), we want to send back that response's information to the client hence, otherwise just 500 on error or 200 on success:
try {
const bookmarks = await fetchBookmarks(pocketConsumerKey, pocketAccessToken);
return {
statusCode: 200,
body: JSON.stringify(bookmarks)
};
} catch(e) {
if (e.response) {
return {
statusCode: e.response.statusCode,
body: `Error while connecting to Pocket API: ${e.response.statusText}`
}
}
return {
statusCode: 500,
body: e.message
}
}
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]
On my site, the lambda doesn't read the access token and consumer key from the request.
Instead it's a simple GET that reads the token and key from environment variables.
You should run yarn
before starting.
The following scripts are available:
yarn start
: start the Lambda(s) and serving the static directory using Netlify Dev . Important:yarn build:tw
runs beforestart
.yarn build:tw
: build the full set of Tailwind CSS utilities (useful for development), make sure to check what your site looks will look like live usingyarn build:css
yarn build
: run netlify-lambda build + Tailwind CSS production build (removes unused classes using PurgeCSS)yarn build:css
: Tailwind CSS production build (removes unused classes using PurgeCSS)yarn lint
andyarn format
: runs XO, the "JavaScript linter with great defaults" (see github.com/xojs/xo) with or without the--fix
flag respectively