node-red-contrib-volkswagen-we

Simple Node-RED nodes for interacting with Volkswagen We.

Node we-connect-login

Node that logs in to the WE Connect Portal and outputs properties needed for subsequent calls for information or actions.

Outputs

After successful login to VW We Connect, the 'we-connect-login' node sets a few outputs.

msg.vw_base_url: The base URL as string, to be used when calling for data/actions.

"https://www.portal.volkswagen-we.com/portal/delegate/dashboard/[MY_VIN_NUMBER]"

msg.headers: Headers set during login, should be used in HTTP calls for data/actions. Can be directly feed in to standard 'http request' node.

{
  "Accept":"application/json, text/plain, */*",
  "Content-Type":"application/json;charset=UTF-8",
  "User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0",
  "Referer":"https://www.portal.volkswagen-we.com/portal/delegate/dashboard/[MY_VIN_NUMBER]",
  "X-CSRF-Token":"[SOME_CSRF]",
  ...
}

msg.cookies: Cookies set during login, should be used in HTTP calls for data/actions. Can be directly feed in to standard 'http request' node.

{
  "JSESSIONID":{
    "key":"JSESSIONID",
    "value":"BB86626BEE0D744FEC7851065158E065.blue-1",
    "domain":"www.portal.volkswagen-we.com",
    ...
  },
  "COOKIE_SUPPORT":{
    "key":"COOKIE_SUPPORT",
    "value":"true",
    "expires":"2021-01-06T09:56:05.000Z",
    "domain":"www.portal.volkswagen-we.com",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

msg.we_connect: A JSON object containing all of the above.

{
  "headers":{
    ...
  },
  "cookies":{
    ...
  },
  "url":"THE_BASE_URL"
}

Credits

Credits should go to wez3 for his volkswagen-carnet-client scripts. The Volkswagen communication for these nodes are heavily based on that implementation.

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