Using Stedi SFTP with the SDK

This example shows how to use the Stedi SFTP SDK. This is of use to JavaScript developers who want to generate SFTP credentials programmatically, but don't want to interact with the Stedi SFTP API directly.

Authentication

Create an API key if you haven’t done so already. The examples on this page assume you have your API key stored in an environment variable called STEDI_API_KEY. You can do that with the following command.

export STEDI_API_KEY=replace.withYourOwnApiKey

Install the SDK

The following code examples are in Javascript only. We offer the Stedi SDK for JavaScript (we also provide TypeScript support). To get started, install the @stedi/sdk-client-sftp package. You can do this by running npm install --save @stedi/sdk-client-sftp in your local directory. Please note that to run the following examples you need to install node@16 or higher.

Create an SFTP user

Create a user. You can customize description, homeDirectory and passwordOptions.

description helps you find the user account later if you need to.
homeDirectory determines which files and directory the user has access to. The user can access any file or directory under their home directory, but none outside it.
passwordOptions determines how the password is generated.
- length determines the length of the password.

const stediSftpSdk = require("@stedi/sdk-client-sftp");

const apiKey = process.env.STEDI_API_KEY; // Fetch your API key from an environment variable.

// Create a new SFTP Client for the Stedi US region
const stediSftpClient = new stediSftpSdk.SftpClient({
  region: "us",
  apiKey: apiKey,
});

// Create an SFTP user for Alice
const createUserOutput = await stediSftpClient.send(
  new stediSftpSdk.CreateUserCommand({
    description: "Trading partner Alice",
    homeDirectory: "/alice",
  }),
);

// Print the user object
console.log(createUserOutput);

The response will look like this.

{
  "username": "WL9F11A9",
  "homeDirectory": "/alice",
  "description": "Trading partner Alice",
  "bucketName": "565460e4-4c6f-4a55-87f1-a9d27616f8aa-sftp",
  "endpoint": "transfer.us.stedi.com",
  "password": "k9TqUSvZsGPs9iav"
}

Connect to the SFTP endpoint

Alice can use the returned credentials to connect to the SFTP endpoint using whichever SFTP client she prefers. We provide an example using the command line SFTP client here: command line example

Authentication Install the SDK Create an SFTP user Connect to the SFTP endpoint

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