TempMail API Client

A robust Node.js client for interacting with the temp-mail.org service. This client provides an object-oriented interface for creating temporary email addresses and monitoring incoming messages.

Features

• 🚀 Easy-to-use API for temporary email management
• ⚡ Real-time message monitoring
• 🔄 Automatic retry mechanism with exponential backoff
• 🛡️ Comprehensive error handling
• 📝 Support for HTML message parsing
• 🎯 Configurable settings
• 📦 Can be used as a module or standalone script

Installation

npm install temp-mail-client

Quick Start

const TempMail = require('./index.js');

async function example() {
    const tempMail = new TempMail();
    
    try {
        // Initialize and create a temporary mailbox
        await tempMail.initialize();
        console.log('Temporary email:', tempMail.mailbox);
        
        // Start monitoring for new messages
        await tempMail.monitorMailbox(async (message) => {
            console.log('New message received:', message.subject);
        });
    } catch (error) {
        console.error('Error:', error.message);
    }
}

example();

API Documentation

Class: TempMail

Constructor

const tempMail = new TempMail(config);

Parameters:

• config (optional): Configuration object to override default settings

Configuration Options

{
    BASE_URL: 'https://web2.temp-mail.org',
    POLLING_INTERVAL: 5000, // 5 seconds
    MAX_RETRIES: 3,
    RETRY_DELAY: 1000, // 1 second
    HEADERS: { ... } // Custom headers
}

Methods

initialize()

Creates a new temporary mailbox and obtains authentication token.

await tempMail.initialize();

getMessages()

Retrieves all messages from the mailbox.

const messages = await tempMail.getMessages();

readMail(messageId)

Retrieves a specific message by ID.

const message = await tempMail.readMail('message-id');

monitorMailbox(callback)

Starts monitoring the mailbox for new messages.

await tempMail.monitorMailbox(async (message) => {
    console.log('New message:', message);
});

Parameters:

• callback: Function to be called for each new message

extractConfirmationLink(htmlBody)

Extracts confirmation links from HTML email content.

const link = tempMail.extractConfirmationLink(message.bodyHtml);

Advanced Usage

Custom Configuration

const customConfig = {
    POLLING_INTERVAL: 10000, // Check every 10 seconds
    MAX_RETRIES: 5, // More retries
    RETRY_DELAY: 2000 // Longer delay between retries
};

const tempMail = new TempMail(customConfig);

Message Processing Example

const tempMail = new TempMail();
await tempMail.initialize();

await tempMail.monitorMailbox(async (message) => {
    // Process message content
    console.log('From:', message.from);
    console.log('Subject:', message.subject);
    
    // Extract confirmation link if present
    const link = tempMail.extractConfirmationLink(message.bodyHtml);
    if (link) {
        console.log('Found confirmation link:', link);
        // Process the link...
    }
});

Error Handling

try {
    const tempMail = new TempMail();
    await tempMail.initialize();
} catch (error) {
    if (error.name === 'APIError') {
        console.error('API Error:', error.message, 'Status:', error.statusCode);
    } else {
        console.error('General Error:', error.message);
    }
}

Error Types

APIError

Thrown when the API returns an error response.

• Properties:
  • message: Error description
  • statusCode: HTTP status code
  • name: Always 'APIError'

Development

Project Structure

.
├── index.js     # Main implementation
└── README.md    # Documentation

Running Tests

npm test

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• temp-mail.org for providing the temporary email service
• Cheerio for HTML parsing capabilities

Support

For support, please open an issue in the GitHub repository.