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Create useful automations with plain Javascript 🧑‍💻

Anthony Lagrede on December 01, 2022

Are you more automatic or manual? Hi all 👋, Continuing my contribution to the developer community as app maker, today I propose to discu...
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Goon Nguyen •

Brilliant, Anthony! Very clever!

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Anthony Lagrede •

Thank you 🙏

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Andrew Weaver •

Great write up! And Zcode looks pretty cool, looking forward to checking it out!

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Anthony Lagrede •

Thank you Andrew 😊

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azizqamar7 •

How to encrypt mail & password?

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Anthony Lagrede • • Edited

Hi,
I don't know if I'm answering your question correctly but you can do something like declare a json file containing your credentials:
google.json

{
 "email":"XXX@gmail.com",
 "app_password":"XXX"
}
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Then use it:

const credentials = require("./google.json");
console.log(credentials.email)
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You can also export your variable like this:
export GOOGLE_MAIL="XXX@gmail.com"
Then in your node script:

console.log(process.env.GOOGLE_MAIL)
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I hope this will help you 😊

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azizqamar7 •

I've seen in smtpjs.com where you can encrypt your data by providing host name, email address and password, & port number. It gives secure token, but still here it's json file that might be accessible, isn't it?

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Anthony Lagrede •

As long as the code is running on your server with NodeJS, the JSON file is not accessible. My comment is just about how to avoid to commit your credentials in Github as @darthwalsh pointed out.

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azizqamar7 •

Ohh nice

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Naga Charan Kumar Reddy •

Can we send mail if two step verification is enabled for our mail?

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Carl Walsh •

Google app passwords are meant to be used in automation, bypassing 2FA. Make sure not to upload them to GitHub!