Project

This repository contains community-maintained Go SDK for Pocketbase API. Not all endpoints are covered yet, if you need some particular endpoint or feature, please feel free to open a Pull Request. It's well-tested and used in production in:

• Coinpaprika
• KYCNOT.me

Compatibility

• v0.22.0 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.22.x
• v0.21.0 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.21.x
• v0.20.0 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.20.x
• v0.19.0 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.19.x
• v0.13.0 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.13.x and higher
• v0.12.0 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.12.x
• v0.11.0 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.11.x
• v0.10.1 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.10.x
• v0.9.2 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.9.x (SSE & generics support introduced)
• v0.8.0 version of SDK is compatible with Pocketbase v0.8.x

PocketBase

Pocketbase is a simple, self-hosted, open-source, no-code, database for your personal data. It's a great alternative to Airtable, Notion, and Google Sheets. Source code is available on GitHub

Currently supported operations

This SDK doesn't have feature parity with official SDKs and supports the following operations:

• Authentication - anonymous, admin and user via email/password
• Create
• Update
• Delete
• List - with pagination, filtering, sorting
• Backups - with create, restore, delete, upload, download and list all available downloads
• Other - feel free to create an issue or contribute

Usage & examples

Simple list example without authentication (assuming your collections are public):

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/pluja/pocketbase"
)

func main() {
	client := pocketbase.NewClient("http://localhost:8090")

	// You can list with pagination:
	response, err := client.List("posts_public", pocketbase.ParamsList{
		Page: 1, Size: 10, Sort: "-created", Filters: "field~'test'",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	log.Print(response.TotalItems)

	// Or you can use the FullList method (v0.0.7)
	response, err := client.FullList("posts_public", pocketbase.ParamsList{
		Sort: "-created", Filters: "field~'test'",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	log.Print(response.TotalItems)
}

Creating an item with admin user (auth via email/pass). Please note that you can pass map[string]any or struct with JSON tags as a payload:

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/pluja/pocketbase"
)

func main() {
	client := pocketbase.NewClient("http://localhost:8090", 
		pocketbase.WithAdminEmailPassword("[email protected]", "[email protected]"))
	response, err := client.Create("posts_admin", map[string]any{
		"field": "test",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	log.Print(response.ID)
}

For even easier interaction with collection results as user-defined types, you can go with CollectionSet:

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/pluja/pocketbase"
)

type post struct {
	ID      string
	Field   string
	Created string
}

func main() {
	client := pocketbase.NewClient("http://localhost:8090")
	collection := pocketbase.CollectionSet[post](client, "posts_public")

	// List with pagination
	response, err := collection.List(pocketbase.ParamsList{
		Page: 1, Size: 10, Sort: "-created", Filters: "field~'test'",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	// FullList also available for collections:
	response, err := collection.FullList(pocketbase.ParamsList{
		Sort: "-created", Filters: "field~'test'",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	
    log.Printf("%+v", response.Items)
}

Realtime API via Server-Sent Events (SSE) is also supported:

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/pluja/pocketbase"
)

type post struct {
	ID      string
	Field   string
	Created string
}

func main() {
	client := pocketbase.NewClient("http://localhost:8090")
	collection := pocketbase.CollectionSet[post](client, "posts_public")
	response, err := collection.List(pocketbase.ParamsList{
		Page: 1, Size: 10, Sort: "-created", Filters: "field~'test'",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	
	stream, err := collection.Subscribe()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer stream.Unsubscribe()
	<-stream.Ready()
	for ev := range stream.Events() {
		log.Print(ev.Action, ev.Record)
	}
}

You can fetch a single record by its ID using the One method to get the raw map, or the OneTo method to unmarshal directly into a custom struct.

Here's an example of fetching a single record as a map:

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/pluja/pocketbase"
)

func main() {
	client := pocketbase.NewClient("http://localhost:8090")

	// Fetch a single record by ID
	record, err := client.One("posts_public", "record_id")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	// Access the record fields
	log.Print(record["field"])
}

You can fetch and unmarshal a single record directly into your custom struct using OneTo:

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/pluja/pocketbase"
)

type Post struct {
	ID    string `json:"id"`
	Field string `json:"field"`
}

func main() {
	client := pocketbase.NewClient("http://localhost:8090")

	// Fetch a single record by ID and unmarshal into struct
	var post Post
	err := client.OneTo("posts", "post_id", &post)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	// Access the struct fields
	log.Printf("Fetched Post: %+v\n", post)
}

Trigger to create a new backup.

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/pluja/pocketbase"
)

func main() {
	client := pocketbase.NewClient("http://localhost:8090", 
		pocketbase.WithAdminEmailPassword("[email protected]", "[email protected]"))
	err := client.Backup().Create("foobar.zip")
	if err != nil {
	    log.Println("create new backup failed")
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

Authenticate user from collection

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/pluja/pocketbase"
)

type User struct {
	AuthProviders    []interface{} `json:"authProviders"`
	UsernamePassword bool          `json:"usernamePassword"`
	EmailPassword    bool          `json:"emailPassword"`
	OnlyVerified     bool          `json:"onlyVerified"`
}

func main() {
	client := pocketbase.NewClient("http://localhost:8090")
	response, err := pocketbase.CollectionSet[User](client, "users").AuthWithPassword("user", "[email protected]")
	if err != nil {
		log.Println("user-authentication failed")
		log.Fatal(err)
		return
	}
	log.Println("authentication successful")
	log.Printf("JWT-token: %s\n", response.Token)
}

More examples can be found in:

• example file
• tests for the client
• tests for the collection
• remember to start the Pocketbase before running examples with make serve command

Development

Makefile targets

• make serve - builds all binaries and runs local PocketBase server, it will create collections and sample data based on migration files
• make test - runs tests (make sure that PocketBase server is running - make serve before)
• make check - runs linters and security checks (run this before commit)
• make build - builds all binaries (examples and PocketBase server)
• make help - shows help and other targets

Contributing

• Go 1.21+ (for making changes in the Go code)
• While developing use WithDebug() client option to see HTTP requests and responses
• Make sure that all checks are green (run make check before commit)
• Make sure that all tests pass (run make test before commit)
• Create a PR with your changes and wait for review