# 2. Connect to revault-api

### Setup environment variables [​](https://help.enterprise.ledger.com/api-documentation-v2/guides/balance-reporting-bot/broken-reference) <a href="#setup-environment-variables" id="setup-environment-variables"></a>

Create a `.env` file with this content, replacing `<your-api-key>` and `<your-api-secret>` with your user's credentials and `<your-workspace>` by your target workspace:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title=".env" %}

<pre class="language-bash"><code class="lang-bash"><strong>REVAULT_API_URL="https://re.vault.ledger.com/v1/rest"
</strong>REVAULT_WORKSPACE="&#x3C;your-workspace>"
REVAULT_API_KEY_ID="&#x3C;your-api-key-id>"
REVAULT_API_KEY_SECRET="&#x3C;your-api-key-secret>"
</code></pre>

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Login to API ​ <a href="#login-to-api" id="login-to-api"></a>

#### Edit the script file ​ <a href="#edit-the-script-file" id="edit-the-script-file"></a>

Update the `main.ts` file content:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="main.ts" %}

```bash
import "dotenv/config";
import axios from "axios";

async function main() {
  const client = axios.create({
    baseURL: process.env.REVAULT_API_URL,
  });

  // authenticate & retrieve `accessToken` from user's credentials
  const authResponse = await client.post("/auth/token", {
    workspace: process.env.REVAULT_WORKSPACE,
    apiKeyId: process.env.REVAULT_API_KEY_ID,
    apiKeySecret: process.env.REVAULT_API_KEY_SECRET,
  });
  const accessToken = authResponse.data.accessToken as string;

  // add the Authorization header to every request
  client.interceptors.request.use((config) => {
    config.headers.Authorization = `Bearer ${accessToken}`;
    return config;
  });

  // fetch the current authenticated user
  const userResponse = await client.get("/users/me");
  const user = userResponse.data as { name: string };

  console.log(`Successfully logged as ${user.name}`);
}

// launch the script
main();
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

#### Test the script ​ <a href="#test-the-script" id="test-the-script"></a>

Run the command again:

```bash
npm run dev
```

It should output:

```
> vault-bot@1.0.0 dev /tmp/vault-bot
> tsx main.ts

Successfully logged as BobAPI
```

{% hint style="warning" %}
If you don't see the successful message, please verify that you followed all the steps precisely and that your credentials are valid.

If the problem persists, please contact support.
{% endhint %}


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