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Problem with Typesense Scoped Key Generation

TLDR Sai faced an issue while creating a scoped key in Typesense. Jason clarified that node.js must be used to generate this key, rather than a browser.

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Sep 06, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

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Sai

12:07 PM

while creating a scoped key let key = await typesense.keys().generateScopedSearchKey(keyWithSearchPermissions, { filter_by: "active:true" }) i am getting this error Error generating scoped search key: ReferenceError: Buffer is not defined

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Jason

12:24 PM

You want to use node.js to generate scoped API keys. It does not work in the browser by design

Sai

01:36 PM

thank you

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