Enviroment Variables

This page provides a comprehensive reference for all the environment variables required to run the AlbertPlus project. These variables should be managed and stored in your Doppler project.

Web Application (apps/web)

These variables are required for the Next.js web application.

Variable	Description
NEXT_PUBLIC_CONVEX_URL	The URL of your Convex deployment.
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY	The publishable key for your Clerk frontend.
CLERK_SECRET_KEY	The secret key for your Clerk backend.
CONVEX_DEPLOYMENT	The name of your Convex deployment.

Browser Extension (apps/browser)

These variables are needed for the Chrome browser extension.

Variable	Description
PLASMO_PUBLIC_CONVEX_URL	The URL of your Convex deployment.
PLASMO_PUBLIC_CLERK_SYNC_HOST	The host for Clerk’s cross-origin authentication.
CLERK_FRONTEND_API	The URL of your Clerk Frontend API.

Scraper (apps/scraper)

These environment variables are required for the Cloudflare Worker scraper.

Variable	Description
CONVEX_SITE_URL	The HTTP API URL for your Convex backend.
CONVEX_API_KEY	An API key for authenticating with the Convex backend.

Convex Backend (packages/server)

These variables are configured in your Convex deployment environment.

Variable	Description
CLERK_JWT_ISSUER_DOMAIN	The JWT issuer domain from your Clerk account for token validation.
CONVEX_API_KEY	A shared API key for authenticating requests between Convex and the scraper worker.
SCRAPER_URL	The URL of the deployed scraper worker (e.g., https://scraper.albertplus.com).

Cloudflare Worker Configuration

These are configured in wrangler.jsonc.

Bindings

Binding	Type	Description
SCRAPING_QUEUE	Queue	Binding for the Cloudflare Worker queue.
DB	D1 Database	Binding for the Cloudflare D1 database.

Variables

Variable	Description
SCRAPING_BASE_URL	The base URL for NYU course bulletins (e.g., https://bulletins.nyu.edu/).
ALBERT_SCRAPING_BASE_URL	The base URL for Albert public class search (e.g., https://bulletins.nyu.edu/class-search/).