claude-unofficial-api

This is a lightweight (isomorphic, 0 dependency) JavaScript library for interacting with the Claude AI chatbot's unofficial internal API. CLI installation, API installation + usage

Psst. It can also code full projects and output valid JSON

Features

• 💬 Start new conversations

• 📎 Upload files

• 🧪 Unit tests included with 85% coverage of code and 100% pass rates!

• 🌎 Isomorphic (supposing you setup a proxy, cors make me sad)

• 🔄 Async/await ready with modern syntax

• 💾 Get and respond to existing conversations

• 🚀 Upcoming

  • CLI: Retrying responses, Reflexion implementation, prompt templates, auto conversation saving
  • API: Better error handling, automated unit tests, caching layer, searching, setActiveModel, list available models, send message directly to existing conversation, hooks for events, used tokens count (percentage/raw), token estimator, available tokens for model

• 💪 Supports all claude models (claude-2, claude-1.3, claude-instant-100k - See --model flag)

Installation

npm install claude-ai

CLI installation

npm install -g claude-cli

Note Run claude --help or see CLI_DOCS.md for more info about the CLI

Usage

First, import the library:

const Claude = require('claude-ai'); 

Initialize a new Claude instance with your session key:

Note Get sessionKey from the sessionKey cookie via the Claude website.

const claude = new Claude({
  sessionKey: 'YOUR_SESSION_KEY' 
});

Start a conversation by calling startConversation() with a prompt message (or get existing conversations via .getConversations()):

const conversation = await claude.startConversation('Hello Claude!');

The Conversation instance exposes methods like sendMessage() to continue the chat:

await conversation.sendMessage('How are you today?');

The full code would look like:

const Claude = require('claude-ai');

const claude = new Claude({
  sessionKey: 'YOUR_SESSION_KEY'
});

await claude.init();

const conversation = await claude.startConversation('Hello Claude!');

await conversation.sendMessage('How are you today?');

See the documentation below for the full API reference.

Documentation

Claude

The main class for interfacing with the Claude API.

Constructor:

const claude_instance = new Claude({
  sessionKey: string,
  proxy: string | ({endpoint, options}) => ({endpoint, options})
})

• If proxy is a function it will be passed the API route to fetch as well as the fetch options which can then be manipulated before running through fetch. If you're feeling adventurous you could also just modify the claude.request functionnn (see source for more info)
• If proxy is a string, it will simply be prepended before the API endpoint, example: https://claude.ai/

Parameters:

• sessionKey - Your Claude sessionKey cookie

Methods (on an instance):

• startConversation(prompt) - Starts a new conversation with the given prompt message
• getConversations() - Gets recent conversations
• clearConversations() - Clear all conversations
• uploadFile(file) - Uploads a file

Conversation

Returned by Claude.startConversation().

Methods:

• sendMessage(message, options) - Sends a followup message in the conversation
• getInfo() - Gets the conversation (includes messages, name, created_at, update_at, etc)
• delete() - Delete the conversation (returns fetch response)

SendMessage Options:

• timezone - The timezone for completion
• attachments - Array of file attachments
• model - The Claude model to use (default: claude-2, other models that I know of include claude-1.3, and claude-instant-100k. Seems to also accept claude-1 but transform it to claude-1.3)
• done - Callback when completed
• progress - Progress callback

Contributing

Contributions welcome! This library was created by @Explosion-Scratch on GitHub. Please submit PRs to help improve it.