Genkit Web Fetch Plugin

This plugin provides utilities for exposing Genkit actions (flows, models, etc.) over the Web Fetch API (Request / Response). Use it with any runtime or framework that supports the standard Fetch API (such as Hono, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Node (18+), Vercel Edge, Netlify Edge, Elysia, SvelteKit, etc). Express-like API: pass the action first, then call the returned handler with the request.

No framework-specific dependencies; only genkit and the standard Web APIs.

Installation

npm i @genkit-ai/fetch
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Usage (Hono)

Single action with fetchHandler

import { fetchHandler } from '@genkit-ai/fetch';
import { Hono } from 'hono';

const simpleFlow = ai.defineFlow('simpleFlow', async (input, { sendChunk }) => {
  const { text } = await ai.generate({
    model: googleAI.model('gemini-2.0-flash'),
    prompt: input,
    onChunk: (c) => sendChunk(c.text),
  });
  return text;
});

const app = new Hono();
app.all('/simpleFlow', (c) => fetchHandler(simpleFlow)(c.req.raw));
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For a model, resolve it from the plugin then pass to fetchHandler:

const gai = googleAI();
const model = await gai.model('gemini-2.0-flash');
app.post('/models/gemini-flash', (c) => fetchHandler(model)(c.req.raw));
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Multiple actions with fetchHandlers

Mount several actions (flows, models, etc.) under one path; the action is selected by the request path (e.g. /api/hello runs the action named hello):

import { fetchHandlers } from '@genkit-ai/fetch';

const actions = [helloFlow, greetingFlow, streamingFlow];

app.all('/api/*', (c) => fetchHandlers(actions, '/api')(c.req.raw));
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Clients call POST /api/<actionName> with body { "data": <input> }.

Auth with context providers

Use a context provider (e.g. for auth) and attach it to an action with withActionOptions:

import { UserFacingError } from 'genkit';
import type { ContextProvider, RequestData } from 'genkit/context';
import { fetchHandler, fetchHandlers, withActionOptions } from '@genkit-ai/fetch';

const authContext: ContextProvider<{ userId: string }> = (req: RequestData) => {
  if (req.headers['authorization'] !== 'Bearer open-sesame') {
    throw new UserFacingError('PERMISSION_DENIED', 'not authorized');
  }
  return { userId: 'authenticated-user' };
};

// Single action with auth
app.all('/secureFlow', (c) =>
  fetchHandler(secureFlow, { contextProvider: authContext })(c.req.raw)
);

// Or wrap the action for use with fetchHandlers
const actions = [
  publicFlow,
  withActionOptions(secureFlow, { contextProvider: authContext }),
];
app.all('/api/*', (c) => fetchHandlers(actions, '/api')(c.req.raw));
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Durable streaming (Beta)

You can configure actions to use a StreamManager so stream state is persisted. Clients can disconnect and reconnect without losing the stream.

Provide a streamManager in the options. For development, use InMemoryStreamManager:

import { InMemoryStreamManager } from 'genkit/beta';
import { fetchHandler, fetchHandlers, withActionOptions } from '@genkit-ai/fetch';

app.all('/myDurableFlow', (c) =>
  fetchHandler(myFlow, {
    streamManager: new InMemoryStreamManager(),
  })(c.req.raw)
);

// Or with fetchHandlers
const actions = [
  withActionOptions(myFlow, {
    streamManager: new InMemoryStreamManager(),
  }),
];
app.all('/api/*', (c) => fetchHandlers(actions, '/api')(c.req.raw));
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For production, use a durable implementation such as FirestoreStreamManager or RtdbStreamManager from @genkit-ai/firebase, or a custom StreamManager.

Clients can reconnect using the streamId:

import { streamFlow } from 'genkit/beta/client';

// Start a new stream
const result = streamFlow({
  url: 'http://localhost:3780/api/myDurableFlow',
  input: 'tell me a long story',
});
const streamId = await result.streamId; // save for reconnect

// Reconnect later
const reconnected = streamFlow({
  url: 'http://localhost:3780/api/myDurableFlow',
  streamId,
});
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Calling actions from the client

Use runFlow and streamFlow from genkit/beta/client (same protocol as the Express plugin):

import { runFlow, streamFlow } from 'genkit/beta/client';

const result = await runFlow({
  url: 'http://localhost:3780/api/hello',
  input: 'world',
});
console.log(result);

// With auth headers
const result = await runFlow({
  url: 'http://localhost:3780/api/secureGreeting',
  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer open-sesame' },
  input: { name: 'Alex' },
});

// Streaming
const result = streamFlow({
  url: 'http://localhost:3780/api/streaming',
  input: { prompt: 'Say hello in chunks' },
});
for await (const chunk of result.stream) {
  console.log(chunk);
}
console.log(await result.output);
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API summary

Request body must be JSON with a data field: { "data": <input> }. For streaming, use Accept: text/event-stream or query ?stream=true.

Contributing

The sources for this package are in the main Genkit repo. Please file issues and pull requests there.

More details are in the Genkit documentation.

License

Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.