# DAPIClient

**Usage**: `new DAPIClient(options)`  
**Description**: This method creates a new DAPIClient instance.

Parameters:

| parameters                      | type                | required[def value]         | Description                                                                                    |
| :------------------------------ | :------------------ | :-------------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **options**                     | Object              |                             |                                                                                                |
| **options.dapiAddressProvider** | DAPIAddressProvider | no[ListDAPIAddressProvider] | Allow to override the default dapiAddressProvider (do not allow seeds or dapiAddresses params) |
| **options.seeds**               | string\[]           | no[seeds]                   | Allow to override default seeds (to connect to specific node)                                  |
| **options.network**             | string              | no[=evonet]                 | Allow to setup the network to be used (livenet, testnet, evonet,..)                            |
| **options.timeout**             | number              | no[=2000]                   | Used to specify the timeout time in milliseconds.                                              |
| **options.retries**             | number              | no[=3]                      | Used to specify the number of retries before aborting and erroring a request.                  |
| **options.baseBanTime**         | number              | no[=6000]                   |                                                                                                |

Returns : DAPIClient instance.

```js
const DAPIClient = require('@dashevo/dapi-client');
const client = new DAPIClient({
  timeout: 5000,
  retries: 3,
  network: 'livenet'
});
```