I'm getting form submission data through Netlify forms.
I want to be able to create a md file with that same data on github when the form is submitted.
So far on my submission-created.js function (triggered by client submission) I'm fetching client's submission data like so:
exports.handler = async function(event, context, callback) {
const data = JSON.parse(event.body).payload.data;
let date = new Date().toUTCString().replace(/[\s|,|:]/g, "-");
date = date.substring(5, date.length);
let courtData =
`---
name: Automatic-file-${date}
location:
lat: ${data?.latitude}
lng: ${data?.longitude}
email: ${data?.email}
byhoopers: ${data?.byhoopers ? data?.byhoopers : false}
openUse: ${data?.openUse}
openTime: ${data?.openTime ? data?.openTime : "unknown"}
social: ${data?.social}
image: ${data?.file?.url}
formcourt: true
---
${data?.info ? data?.info : ""}
![](${data?.file2?.url ? data?.file2?.url : ""})
![](${data?.file3?.url ? data?.file3?.url : ""})
![](${data?.file4?.url ? data?.file4?.url : ""})
![](${data?.file5?.url ? data?.file5?.url : ""})
`;
return {
statusCode: 200,
body: JSON.stringify(data),
};
};
It's working fine but now I need to save this data to a md file and push it to github.
I'm doing something like this but struggling with next step:
let githubContent = Buffer.from(courtData).toString('base64');
let courtInfo = JSON.stringify({
message: `new court file ${date}`,
content: githubContent,
});
let githubPush = {
method: "put",
url: `https://api.github.com/repos/*****${date}.md`,
headers: {
Authorization: "*********",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
data: courtInfo,
};
Axios did the job like so:
await axios(githubPush)
.then(function (response) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
console.log(error);
});
return {
statusCode: 200,
body: JSON.stringify(data),
};
FURTHER NOTE: Also, found out that using Netlify Secrets is a better way to hide guthub's token to increase security.
const API_SECRET = process.env.API_SECRET;
Then create an .env file with API_SECRET = ***** on root, add .env to .gitignore and finally on Netlify's platform creating the environment variables at ENVIRONMENT in the website's Build & Deploy tab.