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aepp-faucet-nodejs

Send Online Top-up. Instant Account Recharge

Recharge your account on the Aeternity Testnet

Provide address in URL

If you navigate the user to the faucet from a wallet, it would be friendly to substitute the user's address into the form. Use address query parameter for that. For example,

https://faucet.aepps.com/?address=ak_21A27UVVt3hDkBE5J7rhhqnH5YNb4Y1dqo4PnSybrH85pnWo7E

JSON API

Instead of using web UI, you can make a POST request to https://faucet.aepps.com/account/<address>. It will respond with a JSON containing transaction hash and an increased balance (in aettos)

{
  "tx_hash": "th_dxhmrcJY4bdqQrj5ZP1zBsuuKz4v4oyPNSqNS6TwTimPuJ3af",
  "balance": "10000000000000000000"
}

If you did top-up recently, you may get an error (425 code)

{
  "message": "The address ak_21A27UVVt3hDkBE5J7rhhqnH5YNb4Y1dqo4PnSybrH85pnWo7E is graylisted for another 2h 59m 24s"
}

An example of requesting faucet using fetch API in JavaScript

const address = 'ak_21A27UVVt3hDkBE5J7rhhqnH5YNb4Y1dqo4PnSybrH85pnWo7E';
const url = `https://faucet.aepps.com/account/${address}`;
const { status } = await fetch(url, { method: 'POST' });
if (status !== 200) throw new Error(`Unexpected faucet response code: ${status}`);

Configuration

Configuring Faucet application via environment variable:

• FAUCET_ACCOUNT_SECRET_KEY The account that faucet aepp will top off the account. (Required)
• TOPUP_AMOUNT The amount of tokens that the faucet application will place into your account. (Default: 5AE)
• SPEND_TX_PAYLOAD Value to use to fill the payload for the transactions (Default: Faucet Tx)
• SPEND_TX_TTL Spend transaction relative TTL. Higher value needs to be used in fast beating networks i.e. Hyperchains (Default: 3)
• NODE_URL URL of the node that the faucet aepp is using. (Default: 'https://testnet.aeternity.io')
• EXPLORER_URL URL of the explorer app (Default: 'https://testnet.aescan.io')
• SUPPORT_EMAIL Email to display for support requests (Default: aepp-dev@aeternity.com)

Server

• SERVER_LISTEN_PORT on which port to listen (Default: 5000)

Development

This repository bundles a simple frontend and a node (express) based backend into a single docker container.

To build and run it locally execute following commands in the root:

npm install
export FAUCET_ACCOUNT_SECRET_KEY=sk_2CuofqWZHrABCrM7GY95YSQn8PyFvKQadnvFnpwhjUnDCFAWmf
export TOPUP_AMOUNT=0.01
npm run dev