Set "typing" status
Notify other users whether the current user is typing a message.
POST https://zulip.disinformationindex.org/api/v1/typing
Clients implementing Zulip's typing notifications protocol should work as follows:
- Send a request to this endpoint with
op="start" when a user starts typing a message,
and also every TYPING_STARTED_WAIT_PERIOD=10 seconds that the user continues to
actively type or otherwise interact with the compose UI (E.g. interacting with the
compose box emoji picker).
- Send a request to this endpoint with
op="stop" when a user pauses using the
compose UI for at least TYPING_STOPPED_WAIT_PERIOD=5 seconds or cancels
the compose action (if it had previously sent a "start" operation for that
compose action).
- Start displaying "Sender is typing" for a given conversation when the client
receives an
op="start" event from the events API.
- Continue displaying "Sender is typing" until they receive an
op="stop" event
from the events API or TYPING_STARTED_EXPIRY_PERIOD=15
seconds have passed without a new op="start" event for that conversation.
- Clients that support displaying stream typing notifications (new in Zulip 4.0)
should indicate they support processing stream typing events via the
stream_typing_notifications in the client_capabilities parameter to /register.
This protocol is designed to allow the server-side typing notifications implementation
to be stateless while being resilient; network failures cannot result in a user being
incorrectly displayed as perpetually typing.
See
the typing notification docs
for additional design details on Zulip's typing notifications protocol.
Usage examples
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import zulip
# Pass the path to your zuliprc file here.
client = zulip.Client(config_file="~/zuliprc")
# The user has started to type in the group PM with Iago and Polonius
user_id1 = 10
user_id2 = 11
request = {
"op": "start",
"to": [user_id1, user_id2],
}
result = client.set_typing_status(request)
# The user has finished typing in the group PM with Iago and Polonius
user_id1 = 10
user_id2 = 11
request = {
"op": "stop",
"to": [user_id1, user_id2],
}
result = client.set_typing_status(request)
# The user has started to type in topic "typing status" of stream "Denmark"
stream_id = client.get_stream_id("Denmark")["stream_id"]
topic = "typing status"
request = {
"type": "stream",
"op": "start",
"to": [stream_id],
"topic": topic,
}
result = client.set_typing_status(request)
# The user has finished typing in topic "typing status" of stream "Denmark"
stream_id = client.get_stream_id("Denmark")["stream_id"]
topic = "typing status"
request = {
"type": "stream",
"op": "stop",
"to": [stream_id],
"topic": topic,
}
result = client.set_typing_status(request)
print(result)
More examples and documentation can be found here.
const zulipInit = require("zulip-js");
// Pass the path to your zuliprc file here.
const config = { zuliprc: "zuliprc" };
(async () => {
const client = await zulipInit(config);
const user_id1 = 9;
const user_id2 = 10;
const typingParams = {
op: "start",
to: [user_id1, user_id2],
};
// The user has started to type in the group PM with Iago and Polonius
console.log(await client.typing.send(typingParams));
})();
curl -sSX POST https://zulip.disinformationindex.org/api/v1/typing \
-u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY \
--data-urlencode type=private \
--data-urlencode op=start \
--data-urlencode 'to=[9, 10]'
Parameters
type string optional
Example: "private"
Type of the message being composed.
Must be one of: "private", "stream".
Defaults to "private".
op string required
Example: "start"
Whether the user has started (start) or stopped (stop) to type.
Must be one of: "start", "stop".
to (integer)[] required
Example: [9, 10]
For 'private' type it is the user_ids of the recipients of the message being typed.
Send a JSON-encoded list of user_ids. (Use a list even if there is only one
recipient.)
For 'stream' type it is a single element list containing ID of stream in
which the message is being typed.
Changes: Before Zulip 2.0, this parameter accepted only a JSON-encoded
list of email addresses. Support for the email address-based format was
removed in Zulip 3.0 (feature level 11).
topic string optional
Example: "typing notifications"
Topic to which message is being typed. Required for the 'stream' type.
Ignored in case of 'private' type.
Response
Example response
A typical successful JSON response may look like:
{
"msg": "",
"result": "success"
}
An example JSON error response for when user sends to multiple streams:
{
"code": "BAD_REQUEST",
"msg": "Cannot send to multiple streams",
"result": "error"
}