RPC Support

Some of the NetsBlox services, such as GoogleMaps, require a default API key to be provided on the deployment to be available. Requests to these services will then use the default API key if the user does not have any API keys defined for him/herself or for the group/class.

If you don’t mind viewing the source code, the keys (and links to set up an API key) can be found here. All API keys can be set by setting the corresponding environment variable. The environment variable is either generated automatically by converting the name to all caps and replacing spaces with underscores (eg, Google Maps -> GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY) or is is listed in the referenced code snippet as the third value passed to ApiKey. For example, The Movie Database is set using TMDB_API_KEY.

Required Environment Variables for RPCs

Service	Environment Variable	Provider
AirQuality	AIR_NOW_KEY	Air Now
BingTraffic	BING_TRAFFIC_KEY	Bing Maps
Genius	GENIUS_KEY	Genius
Geolocation	GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY	Google Maps
GoogleMaps	GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY	Google Maps
GoogleStreetView	GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY	Google Maps
MovieDB	TMDB_API_KEY	The Movie Database
NASA	NASA_KEY	NASA
NewYorkPublicLibrary	NEW_YORK_PUBLIC_LIBRARY_KEY	New York Public Library
NewYorkTimes	NEW_YORK_TIMES_KEY	New York Times
ParallelDots	PARALLELDOTS_KEY	ParallelDots
Pixabay	PIXABAY	Pixabay
Smithsonian	DATA_GOV_KEY	Data.gov
Translation	AZURE_TRANSLATION_KEY	Azure Translation
Twitter	TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN	Twitter
Weather	OPEN_WEATHER_MAP_KEY	Open Weather Map

To simplify this process (and to keep your ~/.bashrc clean), these values can be stored in a .env file in the project root directory and they will be loaded into the environment on starting NetsBlox.