---
title: "Zod Bird"
description: Zodbird is an e2e typed tinybird.co client library for typescript, leveraging zod for type safety and transformations
repository: chronark/zod-bird
date: "2023-05-21"
published: true
  
---

- typesafe
- handles building the url params for you
- easy transformation of resulting data
- built in cache directives for nextjs
- built in retry logic for ratelimited requests


```ts
import { Tinybird } from "@chronark/zod-bird";
import { z } from "zod";

const tb = new Tinybird({ token: "token" });

export const getEvents = tb.buildPipe({
  pipe: "get_events__v1",
  parameters: z.object({
    tenantId: z.string(),
  }),
  data: z.object({
    event: z.string(),
    time: z.number().transform((t) => new Date(t)),
  }),
});


const res = await getEvents({ tenantId: "chronark" })

// res.data = {event: string, time: Date}[]
```

## Install

```
npm i @chronark/zod-bird
```


## Ingesting Data

```ts
// lib/tinybird.ts
import { Tinybird } from "./client";
import { z } from "zod";

const tb = new Tinybird({ token: process.env.TINYBIRD_TOKEN! });

export const publishEvent = tb.buildIngestEndpoint({
  datasource: "events__v1",
  event: z.object({
    id: z.string(),
    tenantId: z.string(),
    channelId: z.string(),
    time: z.number().int(),
    event: z.string(),
    content: z.string().optional().default(""),
    metadata: z.string().optional().default(""),
  }),
});
```

```ts
// somewhere.ts
import { publishEvent } from "./lib/tinybird";

await publishEvent({
  id: "1",
  tenantId: "1",
  channelId: "1",
  time: Date.now(),
  event: "test",
  content: "test",
  metadata: JSON.stringify({ test: "test" }),
});
```



## Querying Endpoints

```ts
// lib/tinybird.ts
import { Tinybird } from "./client";
import { z } from "zod";

const tb = new Tinybird({ token: process.env.TINYBIRD_TOKEN! });

export const getChannelActivity = tb.buildPipe({
  pipe: "get_channel_activity__v1",
  parameters: z.object({
    tenantId: z.string(),
    channelId: z.string().optional(),
    start: z.number(),
    end: z.number().optional(),
    granularity: z.enum(["1m", "1h", "1d", "1w", "1M"]),
  }),
  data: z.object({
    time: z.string().transform((t) => new Date(t).getTime()),
    count: z
      .number()
      .nullable()
      .optional()
      .transform((v) => (typeof v === "number" ? v : 0)),
  }),
});
```

```ts
// somewhere.ts
import { getChannelActivity } from "./lib/tinybird";


const res = await getChannelActivity({
   tenantId: "1",
   channelId: "1",
   start: 123,
   end: 1234,
   granularity: "1h"
})

```
`res` is the response from the tinybird endpoint, but now fully typed and the data has been parsed according to the schema defined in `data`.

## Advanced

### Caching

You can add cache directives to each pipe.


#### Disable caching (useful in Next.js where everything is cached by default)

```ts
tb.buildPipe({
  pipe: "some_pipe__v1",
  parameters: z.object({
   hello: z.string()
  }),
  data: z.object({
    response: z.string()
  }),
   opts: {
      cache: "no-store" // <-------- Add this
   };
});

```

#### Cache for 15 minutes

```ts

tb.buildPipe({
  pipe: "some_pipe__v1",
  parameters: z.object({
   hello: z.string()
  }),
  data: z.object({
    response: z.string()
  }),
   opts: {
      revalidate: 900 ;// <-------- Add this
    };
});
