Clay Hello World

Overview

Minimal working example demonstrating core Clay functionality.

Prerequisites

• Completed clay-install-auth setup
• Valid API credentials configured
• Development environment ready

Instructions

Step 1: Create Entry File

Create a new file for your hello world example.

Step 2: Import and Initialize Client

import { ClayClient } from '@clay/sdk';

const client = new ClayClient({
  apiKey: process.env.CLAY_API_KEY,
});

Step 3: Make Your First API Call

async function main() {
  // Your first API call here
}

main().catch(console.error);

Output

• Working code file with Clay client initialization
• Successful API response confirming connection
• Console output showing:

Success! Your Clay connection is working.

Error Handling

Examples

TypeScript Example

import { ClayClient } from '@clay/sdk';

const client = new ClayClient({
  apiKey: process.env.CLAY_API_KEY,
});

async function main() {
  // Your first API call here
}

main().catch(console.error);

Python Example

from clay import ClayClient

client = ClayClient()

# Your first API call here

Resources

• Clay Getting Started
• Clay API Reference
• Clay Examples

Next Steps

Proceed to clay-local-dev-loop for development workflow setup.