Hypothesis-REST

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

A Typescript client for the Hypothesis REST API for Node.js and the browser

• Static type checking for your API calls, responses and errors
• Typescript errors for unauthenticated requests
• Deal with Annotations, Groups, Profiles and Users rather than just HTTP requests

Catch mistakes as you type and minimize the need for actually making real API calls just for testing purposes.

Get Started

Examples

Documentation

Runtime Requirements: fetch

This code uses fetch so it will run as-is in modern browsers and Node.js 18 or later (the fetch Browser compatibility table on MDN also mentions Node.js 18).

To support anything else, you can polyfill fetch:

• For Node.js < 18
• For older or fringe browsers
• There are plenty of others out there

Authorization

This package enforces the rules described in the Hypothesis docs (notice the authentication method(s) required for each route noted next to the AUTHORIZATIONS label).

• Generate your API token (you'll need to be logged into Hypothesis)
• Generate au OAuth token
• Get an OAuth token for someone else's account

action	Unauthenticated	API Key	Auth Client	Auth Client Forwarded User
root	✓	✓	✓	✓
search	✓	✓	✓	✓
createAnnotation		✓
fetchAnnotation	✓	✓
updateAnnotation		✓
deleteAnnotation		✓
flagAnnotation		✓
hideAnnotation		✓
showAnnotation		✓
getListOfGroups	✓	✓
createGroup		✓		✓
fetchGroup	✓	✓	✓
updateGroup		✓	✓	✓
createOrUpdateGroup		✓		✓
getGroupMembers	✓	✓	✓
addGroupMember			✓
removeGroupMember		✓
fetchProfile	✓	✓
fetchUsersGroups	✓	✓
createUser			✓
fetchUser			✓
updateUser			✓

Development

• clone this repo
• npm i to install dependencies
• npm run to see more options

Tests

Heads Up! : Running the tests performs real requests against the Hypothes.is production API!

If you intend to run the tests (npm test), you'll first need to create a local environment file (cp .env.example .env.testing.local) and add a value for each declared environment variable. This will allow you to test using the library to reach endpoints that require authentication, among other things.

Coming Up

• Publish docs to github.io
• Test Coverage
• Bundle size analysis
• Badges (status, tests, size, test coverage, npm via badge.fury.io)
• Add Client Credentials auth method to /users endpoints (see https://h.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/authorization/#client-credentials)
• 100% Route Coverage
• Publish to npm
• Battle-test
• v2 support
• Add to https://web.hypothes.is/tools-plug-ins-and-integrations/
• Optimize performance
• Local Test API Instance which can provide things like Auth Client tokens and avoid things like email notifications when an annotation is flagged.