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Structured Interface for Representing Entities, super-rad hypermedia

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2012-07-06 · latest 2026-07-30

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  1. …whose major partners are all casinos (am I totally off on this?). The article also references ( https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren which adds detail re: http methods embedded in the _links structure, but I'm not sure why that repo should…
    comment by Octoth0rpe · 2026-07-30 · in What it means for an API to be RESTful
  2. …format on top of JSON. You offer some examples and another one I'm familiar with is Siren ( https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren ). This is analogous to how HTML imposes a hypermedia format on top of SGML, or HXML imposes a hypermedia…
    comment by recursivedoubts · 2025-10-06 · in How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development
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    Siren: A hypermedia specification for representing entities
    story by mooreds · 2023-07-06 · 0 comments
  4. …language such as SIREN [1] along with Web Link Relations list the IETF maintains already. 1. https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren
    comment by jdougan · 2022-07-18 · in How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
  5. …name="acc_number" value="12345"> <button>Close Account</button> </form> If you're speaking Siren ( https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren ): { "actions": [ { "title": "Close Account", "method": "POST", "href": "/close-account", "type":…
    comment by gtramont · 2016-09-12 · in REST Anti-patterns
  6. Great point. The hypermedia specs Siren [1] and HAL [2] have full HATEOS support. [1] https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren [2] http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
    comment by programmarchy · 2016-06-24 · in Ask HN: What is your go-to example for a good REST API?
  7. …http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/ * HAL https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kelly-json-hal-06 * Siren https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren * Uber https://rawgit.com/uber-hypermedia/specification/master/uber-hypermedia.html Totally agree on the…
    comment by awinder · 2015-05-24 · in The Restful CookBook
  8. …[3] http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/ [4] http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html [5] https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren
    comment by smizell · 2013-11-06 · in New API Commons Platform Allows Developers to Share APIs
  9. …JSON-LD http://json-ld.org/ Collection+JSON http://www.amundsen.com/media-types/collection/ Siren https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren There are others as well.
    comment by michaelsbradley · 2012-07-11 · in Using HTML as the Media Type for your API
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    Siren
    story by michaelfairley · 2012-07-06 · 0 comments