Sendgrid-nodejs: Setup issue

[DonWono]

Hi,
I'm trying to setup SendGrid, and I'm just following the instructions in the tutorial for "With Mail Helper Class". After I run the following code:

echo "export SENDGRID_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY'" > sendgrid.env
echo "sendgrid.env" >> .gitignore
source ./sendgrid.env

I get an error "export: Command not found."

When I try to send my first send grid e-mail I get an error 401. 'The provided authorization grant is invalid, expired, or revoked.'

I've checked and echo "export SENDGRID_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY'" > sendgrid.env did create a sendgrid.env in my projects root folder.

When I checked the:
var sg = require('sendgrid')(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
console.log(sg);

The console returns Authorization: 'Bearer undefined',.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

All the best,
Don

• sendgrid-nodejs Version: master (latest commit: [commit number])
• Node v 6.3.1

[thinkingserious]

Hello @DonWono,

Are you developing on Windows, Mac or Linux?

[DonWono]

Hi @thinkingserious

Thanks for your quick reply. I'm developing on a Mac. When everything works I will be deploying to an Ubuntu server.

[thinkingserious]

What happens if you do the following from your command line:

echo $SENDGRID_API_KEY

If you don't see your API Key, try:

export SENDGRID_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY'
echo $SENDGRID_API_KEY

[DonWono]

Hi @thinkingserious,
Thank you for your help! When I checked the echo $SENDGRID_API_KEY, it did print out my api key, but I still couldn't load it into my node application using:

var sg = require('sendgrid')(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);

I did a work around, and put the API_KEY into a JSON file and added the JSON file to gitignore.
Everything seems to be working now.

Thank you for your help.

[thegregthomp]

I'm having a similar issue when using a env variable. If I use the env variable I get the issue above. If I just drop the string into the require process it works. I can not figure out why.

Works...
var sg = require('sendgrid')('SG.iIpwjF6ASgmRuYmwl_KHoQ.EoxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxY3NQ9vwd0');

Doesn't Work...
SENDGRID_API_KEY=SG.iIpwjF6ASgmRuYmwl_KHoQ.EoxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxY3NQ9vwd0
var sg = require('sendgrid')(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);

Even if I log out the env and compare it to the string it's an exact match.

[thinkingserious]

Hello @thegregthomp,

Your "Doesn't Work" case is failing because process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY is looking for the environment variable to be set.

On a Unix-like system, this is usually done like this on the command line:

export SENDGRID_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY'

Then you can verify it works by executing the following on the command line:

echo $SENDGRID_API_KEY

To get your "Doesn't Work" case to work:

SENDGRID_API_KEY=SG.iIpwjF6ASgmRuYmwl_KHoQ.EoxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxY3NQ9vwd0
var sg = require('sendgrid')('SENDGRID_API_KEY');

But that is not recommended. We recommend you store your API Key in an environment variable for security reasons.

I hope that helps. Thanks!

[hridayam]

This is an old issue but I was facing a similar issue and the problem was that I had 2 terminal windows open. One for installing packages and the other for running the server. The source ./sendgrid.env needs to be done in the terminal window you're running the server in. So stopping the server, running the command and restarting the server fixed the issue for me.

[drewclem]

What's the solution to this if you're on windows? My issue may be different, as even with the key directly in place it still doesn't seem to work.

I do know it's not accessing my api key properly when I use .env but I also get 'unresolved promise...' as well

[aroach]

Are you setting it like this?

C:> setx SENDGRID_API_KEY "YOUR_API_KEY"

Another way to provide environment variables to Node is to prepend the
environment variable on the command line:

SENDGRID_API_KEY=SG.xxx.yyyy node app.js

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:52 PM Drew Clements [e-mail]
wrote:

What's the solution to this if you're on windows? My issue may be
different, as even with the key directly in place it still doesn't seem to
work.

I do know it's not accessing my api key properly when I use .env but I
also get 'unresolved promise...' as well

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[drewclem]

I ended up getting this resolved. My .env file was one level up in the
directory to where I was using sendgrid.

So I fought for 3 days because I was missing a '.'
I was using source ./sendgrid.env and needed source ../sendgrid.env

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 5:17 PM Ashley Roach [e-mail]
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Are you setting it like this?

C:> setx SENDGRID_API_KEY "YOUR_API_KEY"

Another way to provide environment variables to Node is to prepend the
environment variable on the command line:

SENDGRID_API_KEY=SG.xxx.yyyy node app.js

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:52 PM Drew Clements [e-mail]
wrote:

What's the solution to this if you're on windows? My issue may be
different, as even with the key directly in place it still doesn't seem
to
work.

I do know it's not accessing my api key properly when I use .env but I
also get 'unresolved promise...' as well

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[aroach]

Oh bummer @drewclem but glad you figured it out!

[hassanasif]

If you're a window user and getting source not recognized.
Try this command
set ./sendgrid.env
It works for me.

[MuhammadSufyanMalik]

Hi, I am still facing a 401 error from my python code. I have checked my environment variable is set properly as well.
What should i do ?? :(

[childish-sambino]

@MuhammadSufyanMalik Tracking here: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-python/issues/561