Frigate HTTP API in Typescript

This is a simple implementation of the Frigate HTTP API using Typescript. Each endpoint is strongly typed. The entire HTTP API Swagger documentation can be seen in the GitHub pages of this project.

Install

You can install it in a Typescript/Javascript project by doing the following:

npm i @intruder-detection/frigate-http-api-typescript

Usage

import { FrigateHTTPAPI, Events } from '@intruder-detection/frigate-http-api-typescript';

// Set the required configuration
FrigateHTTPAPI.configuration = {
  frigateHTTPAPIURL: 'http://192.168.1.223:5000',
};
// Perform any Frigate HTTP API Request
const events = await FrigateHTTPAPI.get(Events.Events, undefined, {
  limit: 5,
});

Notice that the first thing we're doing is to set the required configuration. This is mandatory, since the client needs to know where the server is located. You can set it directly or load from environment variables (See last section for an example on how to load from environment variables using zod library to verify the input).

Afterward, the API client is easy to use.

Create requests (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH) and use the response as you which to

const events = await FrigateHTTPAPI.get(Events.Events, undefined, { limit: 10 });
const eventsSummary = await FrigateHTTPAPI.get(Events.EventsSummary);

You'll notice that the response has a type if you hover over the events property you'll see: const events: EventsResponse[]

Strong types

You'll also notice that the API is strongly typed. If you try to pass any url parameters/query parameters/body that is invalid for the specific request, you'll get an error.

For example, if you try:

const events = await FrigateHTTPAPI.get(
  Events.Events,
  { test:  }, // TS2345: Argument of type { test: any; } is not assignable to parameter of type undefined
  {
     limit: 5,
  },
);

More examples

For more examples look into ./test/main.ts file, which contains examples for pretty much all existing endpoints.

You can easily run this file using the npm script inside package.json

"debug": "dotenv -- npx tsx --inspect-brk test/main.ts",

The npm script loads the .env file to process.env and then inside the main.ts file we're doing

FrigateHTTPAPI.configuration = {
  defaultTimeout: zodEnvironmentParse.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
  frigateHTTPAPIURL: zodEnvironmentParse.FRIGATE_HTTP_URL,
};

zodEnvironmentParse is using the zod library to verify the correctness of the provided .env file. If the FRIGATE_HTTP_URL is not present in the .env file, then zod will throw an error.

If you prefer to load it directly from the process.env, then do:

FrigateHTTPAPI.configuration = {
  frigateHTTPAPIURL: process.env.FRIGATE_HTTP_URL!,
}