NextJS Build Url Path with ENV variables

My project uses NextJS 13.1.6

I’m having trouble building a url through string concatenation using environment variables.

env.local:
 WEBSITE_URL: 'https://somewebsite.com/api/input';
 SECRET_KEY: '1234abcd';

src/pages/api/api-requests.js
  const response = await fetch(`${process.env.WEBSITE_URL}?secret=${process.env.SECRET_KEY}`)

This url produces this output:
 "'https://www.somewebsite.com/api/input';?secret='1234abcd';'"

As you can see there are odd characters in that url string – semi-colons ; and quotes ”

No idea what I’m doing wrong here…

Any help appreciated!

>Solution :

If you .env file look like this

WEBSITE_URL = 'https://www.somewebsite.com/api/input';

remove ; and '' as Scottish Smile commented. Because in .envfile all variables are read as strings, so you don’t need to specify

WEBSITE_URL = https://www.somewebsite.com/api/input