Ptero-client is wrapper around the official API for the Pterodactyl panel using axios. It is designed for ease of use and type safety. All the responses are strongly typed using Typescript. The library also includes the option to import useful types for the user to work with.

This project will be published as a npm-package once all client endpoints are covered.

To get started, install the package:

npm install ptero-client

Then you will need to import the Class and instanciate it with the URL of your panel and your client API key:

import { PteroClient } from 'ptero-client';

const client = new PteroClient({
  hostURL: 'https://panel.example.com/',
  apiKey: 'your-api-key',
});

After that you are ready to use it for example like this. Make sure to catch Errors as all the methods will throw if they fail to succeed at what they are meant to do:

try {
  const { data, meta } = await client.backups.list('fbb9784b');

  console.log(data[0]);
  console.log(meta.backup_count);
} catch (err) {
  console.error(err);
}

If a function throws, you will get an Error that is as accurate and descriptive as possible.

Here is an example Error from trying to create a backup on a server that has already reached its limit:

PterodactylError: Status: 400 (TooManyBackupsException): Cannot create a new backup, this server has reached its limit of 0 backups.

Addionally, every method that is available to the consumer has documentation comments that describe:

• what the method does
• what the method returns
• what the parameters are
• how to use it (including an example)

This gives you documentation of the available features directly in your IDE.

It is strongly recommended to use this library with Typescript because it is specifically made with maximum type-safety in mind. Additionally you get nice auto-complete and we all know that this is a good selling point for TS.

If you want to contribute, suggest features or just talk to me about anything, consider joining my Discord Server, open an issue or email me!