ThoughtSpot Visual Embed SDK

SDK to embed ThoughtSpot into your web apps. You need a ThoughtSpot account to use the SDK, click here to start a trial.

• Installation
• Live Playground
• Full API Reference
• Quick Start
  • Embedded Search
  • Embedded Liveboard & Visualization
  • Embedded Full App
  • Triggering and Listening to events
• React Components
  • Search Component
  • Triggering events on React components * Contributing

Installation

The SDK is compatible with ThoughtSpot SW version >= 7.1 and ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Install the Visual Embed SDK from NPM:

npm i @thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk

The SDK is written in TypeScript and is also provided both as ES Module (ESM) and Universal Module Definition (UMD) modules, allowing you to use it in a variety of environments. For example,...

// ESM via NPM
import * as TsEmbedSDK from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk';
// OR
import { LiveboardEmbed } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk';

// NPM <script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk/dist/tsembed.js"></script>;
// Makes the SDK available on global namespace window.tsembed

// ES6 from web
import {
    LiveboardEmbed,
    AuthType,
    init,
} from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk/dist/tsembed.es.js';

Live Playground

Visit our code playground.

Start a free trial on your own data.

Full API Reference

• Thoughtspot Embedded Docs
• Please visit our API reference docs.
• Comprehensive CodeSandbox

Quick Start

The ThoughtSpot Embed SDK allows you to embed the ThoughtSpot search experience, liveboards, visualizations or the even full app version.

Embedded Search

// NPM
import { SearchEmbed, AuthType, init } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk';
// or ES6
// import { SearchEmbed, AuthType, init } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk/dist/tsembed.es.js';

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: '<%=tshost%>',
    authType: AuthType.None,
});

const searchEmbed = new SearchEmbed(document.getElementById('ts-embed'), {
    frameParams: {
        width: '100%',
        height: '100%',
    },
});

searchEmbed.render();

Embedded Liveboard & Visualization

// NPM
import { LiveboardEmbed, AuthType, init } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk';
// or ES6
// import { LiveboardEmbed, AuthType, init } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk/dist/tsembed.es.js';

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: '<%=tshost%>',
    authType: AuthType.None,
});

const liveboardEmbed = new LiveboardEmbed(
    document.getElementById('ts-embed'),
    {
        frameParams: {
            width: '100%',
            height: '100%',
        },
        liveboardId: '<%=liveboardGUID%>',
        vizId: '<%=vizGUID%>',
    },
});

liveboardEmbed.render();

Embedded Full App

// NPM
import { AppEmbed, Page, AuthType, init } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk';
// or ES6
// import { AppEmbed, AuthType, init } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk/dist/tsembed.es.js';

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: '<%=tshost%>',
    authType: AuthType.None,
});

const appEmbed = new AppEmbed(document.getElementById('ts-embed'), {
    frameParams: {
        width: '100%',
        height: '100%',
    },
    pageId: Page.Data,
});

appEmbed.render();

Triggering and Listening to events

// NPM
import { LiveboardEmbed, Page, AuthType, init, EmbedEvent, HostEvent } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk';

// .. Do init and create a liveboardEmbed object as above.

liveboardEmbed.render();

liveboardEmbed.on(EmbedEvent.LiveboardRendered, () => {
    liveboardEmbed.trigger(HostEvent.SetVisibleVizs, ['viz1', 'viz2']);
});

React Components

All the above flavors of embedding are also provided as React components for your convenience. The constructor options are passed as props and the event listeners can be attached using on<EventName> convention.

Checkout a comprehensive working demo here

Search Component

import { init } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk';
import { SearchEmbed } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk/react';

// If you are using Webpack 4 (which is the default when using create-react-app v4), you would need to import
// the React components using the below:
import { SearchEmbed } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk/lib/src/react';

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: '<%=tshost%>',
    authType: AuthType.None,
});

const MyComponent = ({ dataSources }) => {
    const onCustomAction = (actionEvent) => {
        // Do something with actionEvent.
    };

    return (
        <SearchEmbed
            dataSources={dataSources}
            onCustomAction={onCustomAction}
        />
    );
};

Triggering events on React components (> version 1.9.2)

import { HostEvent } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk';
import { LiveboardEmbed, useEmbedRef } from '@thoughtspot/visual-embed-sdk/react';

const MyComponent = () => {
    const embedRef = useEmbedRef();
    const onLiveboardRendered = () => {
        embedRef.current.trigger(HostEvent.SetVisibleVizs, ['viz1', 'viz2']);
    };

    return (
        <LiveboardEmbed
            ref={embedRef}
            liveboardId="<liveboard-guid>"
            onLiveboardRendered={onLiveboardRendered}
        />
    );
};

Contributing

Local dev server

How to run the local vite server to test out the sdk.

$ npm run build

$ npm run dev

Goto http://localhost:2343/local to check the output.

Look at local/index.html and local/index.ts for some starter code.

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