Something similar to Credentials for saving default data?

Scripting
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Hello!

I’m writing a script that will interface with this API.

After having a user enter their API key, they need to select a default budget from the Prompt buttons that will show which are pulled the API’s Budgets endpoint: https://api.youneedabudget.com/v1/budgets.

I’d then like their choice to be saved in a similar way as Credentials so that the user doesn’t have to select this every time they use the action. Or perhaps, since these aren’t credentials, is there something else I should be using?

Here is the code after the authentication with the API:

let p = Prompt.create();
p.title = "Budget Picker"
p.message = "Please choose a default budget:"
	
for (let i = 0; i < budgets.length; i++) {
  let newButton = p.addButton(`${budgets[i].name}`, budgets[i].id, " ");
  }
  
didSelect = p.show();

let selectedBudget = p.buttonPressed;
  
if (didSelect != true) {
  alert("You will need to select a default budget before this action will run.")
  context.fail();
  } else {
    // Not sure what to put here just yet
  }

Does anyone have anything they can point me to about how this might be accomplished?

Thanks!

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If you consider it confidential, or just for ease of access if you are retrieving other related data at the same time, then credentials seems like a sensible option. If you just want to store it somewhere, consider simply saving it to a file in iCloud (see FileManager in the scripting docs for examples).

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