NodeJS Interacting with Web3 Contract

Question

I have deployed my test contract here: https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0xB8A3eB863d11ab8125121A0908924BbE976929B0 I grabbed the abi, from simply copying and pasting the Contract ABI from here, https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0xB8A3eB863d11ab8125121A0908924BbE976929B0#code. I am not sure if this is the correct way of doing this. Code:

const API_URL = 'https://eth-ropsten.alchemyapi.io/v2/<REDACTED>';
const PRIVATE_KEY = "<REDACTED>";
const PUBLIC_KEY = "<REDACTED>";

const { createAlchemyWeb3 } = require("@alch/alchemy-web3");
const web3 = createAlchemyWeb3(API_URL);

//step 2: Define our contract ABI (Application Binary Interface) & adresses
const contract = require("../contracts/MyNFT.sol/MyNFT.json");
const abi = [
    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type":"address"},{"internalType":"bool","name":"approved","type":"bool"}],"name":"setApprovalForAll","outputs":[],"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"string","name":"baseURI","type":"string"}],"name":"setBaseURI","outputs":[],"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"string","name":"provenanceHash","type":"string"}],"name":"setProvenanceHash","outputs":[],"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"uint256","name":"revealTimeStamp","type":"uint256"}],"name":"setRevealTimestamp","outputs":[],"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function"},{"inputs":[],"name":"setStartingIndex","outputs":[],"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function"},{"inputs":[],"name":"startingIndex","outputs":[{"internalType":"uint256","name":"","type":"uint256"}],"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"inputs":[],"name":"startingIndexBlock","outputs":[{"internalType":"uint256","name":"","type":"uint256"}],"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"bytes4","name":"interfaceId","type":"bytes4"}],"name":"supportsInterface","outputs":[{"internalType":"bool","name":"","type":"bool"}],"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"inputs":[],"name":"symbol","outputs":[{"internalType":"string","name":"","type":"string"}],"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"uint256","name":"index","type":"uint256"}],"name":"tokenByIndex","outputs":[{"internalType":"uint256","name":"","type":"uint256"}],"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"address","name":"owner","type":"address"},{"internalType":"uint256","name":"index","type":"uint256"}],"name":"tokenOfOwnerByIndex","outputs":[{"internalType":"uint256","name":"","type":"uint256"}],"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"uint256","name":"tokenId","type":"uint256"}],"name":"tokenURI","outputs":[{"internalType":"string","name":"","type":"string"}],"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"inputs":[],"name":"totalSupply","outputs":[{"internalType":"uint256","name":"","type":"uint256"}],"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"address","name":"from","type":"address"},{"internalType":"address","name":"to","type":"address"},{"internalType":"uint256","name":"tokenId","type":"uint256"}],"name":"transferFrom","outputs":[],"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function"},{"inputs":[{"internalType":"address","name":"newOwner","type":"address"}],"name":"transferOwnership","outputs":[],"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function"},{"inputs":[],"name":"withdraw","outputs":[],"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function"}]
];
const contractAddress = "0xB8A3eB863d11ab8125121A0908924BbE976929B0";
const nftContract = new web3.eth.Contract(abi, contractAddress);

//step 3: Define the minting function
async function mintNFT(tokenURI) {
  const nonce = await web3.eth.getTransactionCount(PUBLIC_KEY, 'latest'); //get latest nonce

  //the transaction
  const tx = {
    'from': PUBLIC_KEY,
    'to': contractAddress,
    'nonce': nonce,
    'gas': 500000,
    'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1999999987,
    'data': nftContract.methods.mintApe(['1']).send()
  };

  //step 4: Sign the transaction
  const signedTx = await web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction(tx, PRIVATE_KEY);
  const transactionReceipt = await web3.eth.sendSignedTransaction(signedTx.rawTransaction);
  
  console.log(`Transaction receipt: ${JSON.stringify(transactionReceipt)}`);
}

I am getting the following error:

'data': nftContract.methods.mintApe(['1']).send()
                                ^
TypeError: nftContract.methods.mintApe is not a function
    at mintNFT (C:\dev\nft_batch_minting\scripts\mint3.js:29:33)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)