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Sign a URL for Google Maps Platform requests.

Warning: It is not recommended to use this library in client side applications to avoid exposing the secret used to sign the URL.

Available via npm as the package@googlemaps/url-signature.

npm i @googlemaps/url-signature

Check out thereference documentation.

Create a signature for a Google Maps requestURL or url string.

constsignature=createSignature("https://example.com/some-path?foo=bar","secret");

Returns a newURL having a signature parameter.

constsignedUrl=signUrl("https://example.com/some-path?foo=bar","secret");signedUrl.href;// "https://example.com/some-path?foo=bar&signature=..."

Create a signature for a path and query string using Hmac SHA1.

constsignature=createSignatureForPathAndQuery("/some-path?foo=bar","secret");

Note: This is not an officially supported Google product