SHA1 checksums in links

Questions
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Hi there! I’m super new to N8n. I’d like to grab some data using N8n from BigBlueButton.

BBB API requires adding SHA1 checksums to requests:

What would be the best way to handle it with N8n?

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Hey @PrzemekJ hope all is well, welcome to the community.

One way to calculate sha1 of a given string is to run Execute Node:

input: StringThatNeedsToBeSha1-ed
output: 0667de2d3f82a34efba9109be14c07f4638051ac

Does this help?

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Great. But I’m stuck at securely storing some secret value in the workflow. I see there is a credentials section. I can set custom one. Let’s assume I did something like:

{
  "key" : "mysupersecretkey"
}

How do I use it in the workflow? I’d like to grab only the value stored under “key”.

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Credentials are passwords, api keys, headers and other means of getting into external systems (and not a secret vault/storage). What type of credentials are you planning to use?