Node.js: ngrok.forward() issue

[ballonura]

try this command:

await ngrok.forward()

and get this issue:

[Error: failed to connect session: Usage of ngrok requires a verified account and authtoken.
Sign up for an account: https://dashboard.ngrok.com/signup
Install your authtoken: https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started/your-authtoken error_code: ERR_NGROK_4018] {
  code: 'GenericFailure',
  error

but when passing manuaaly it work:

{
  authtoken_from_env: false,
  authtoken: 'xxxxx-my-auth-token-my-auth-token-xxxxx'
}

Node.js version: v14.21.3
ngrok version: 3.6.0

[salilsub]

Hi @ballonura , when running your initial command did you have the environment variable NGROK_AUTHTOKEN set ?

[ballonura]

n0pe, how should i set it? i think the sdk itself know how get it.

[salilsub]

In order to connect to the ngrok service, you need to supply a valid authtoken. There are two ways to do this with ngrok-javascript:

1. Set authtoken_from_env to true (it defaults to false) and set the NGROK_AUTHTOKEN to your authtoken. How you set this environment variable will depend on your OS.
2. Set authtoken_from_env to false and set authtoken to your authtoken as you did above when you passed manually.

[bobzilladev]

Hello! Looks like this issue has been taken care of, so going to close this ticket out. Feel free to reopen if anything else comes up. Thanks again for writing in!