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Get a Secrets Manager secret value using the JavaScript AWS SDK

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Get a Secrets Manager secret value using the JavaScript AWS SDK - AWS Secrets Manager

For JavaScript applications, call the SDK directly with getSecretValue or batchGetSecretValue.

The following code example shows how to get a Secrets Manager secret value.

Required permissions: secretsmanager:GetSecretValue

import { GetSecretValueCommand, SecretsManagerClient, } from "@aws-sdk/client-secrets-manager"; export const getSecretValue = async (secretName = "SECRET_NAME") => { const client = new SecretsManagerClient(); const response = await client.send( new GetSecretValueCommand({ SecretId: secretName, }), ); console.log(response); // { // '$metadata': { // httpStatusCode: 200, // requestId: '584eb612-f8b0-48c9-855e-6d246461b604', // extendedRequestId: undefined, // cfId: undefined, // attempts: 1, // totalRetryDelay: 0 // }, // ARN: 'arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxxx:secret:binary-secret-3873048-xxxxxx', // CreatedDate: 2023-08-08T19:29:51.294Z, // Name: 'binary-secret-3873048', // SecretBinary: Uint8Array(11) [ // 98, 105, 110, 97, 114, // 121, 32, 100, 97, 116, // 97 // ], // VersionId: '712083f4-0d26-415e-8044-16735142cd6a', // VersionStages: [ 'AWSCURRENT' ] // } if (response.SecretString) { return response.SecretString; } if (response.SecretBinary) { return response.SecretBinary; } };
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