How To Connect To Subsocial

You can connect to subsocial using @subsocial/api libraries.

getSubstrateApi()#

getSubstrateApi() is a polkadot.js ApiPromise that provides a connection to a blockchain RPC node, retrieves data from the chain and executes transactions on the chain.

import { getSubstrateApi } from '@subsocial/api'

const api = getSubstrateApi({ endpoint: substrateUrl })

Learn more in the documentation

FlatSubsocialApi#

Connect using FlatSubsocialApi.

import { newFlatSubsocialApi } from '@subsocial/api'

const initSubsocialApi = async () => {
  
    const api = await newFlatSubsocialApi({
      substrateNodeUrl, // Substrate node URL e.g. http://127.0.0.1:9944
      offchainUrl,      // Offchain URL e.g. http://127.0.0.1:3001
      ipfsNodeUrl       // IPFS node URL e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8080
    })
  
    return api
}

// connect to subsocial  
const flatApi = initSubsocialApi()