This document lists all API methods and details the authentication mechanism. Unless you’re writing a library, you may wish to refer to the Server API overview instead.
∞ GeneralThe API is hosted at http://api-CLUSTER.pusher.com, where CLUSTER is replaced with your own apps cluster (e.g., mt1). The API may be accessed via HTTP or HTTPS.
All requests MUST be authenticated, as described in the Generating authentication signatures section.
Parameters MUST be submitted in the query string for GET requests. For POST requests, parameters MAY be submitted in the query string but SHOULD be submitted in the POST body as a JSON hash (while setting Content-Type:application/json
).
HTTP status codes are used to indicate the success or otherwise of requests. The following statuses are common:
Code Description 200 Successful request. The body will contain a JSON hash of response data 400 Error: details in response body 401 Authentication error: response body will contain an explanation 403 Forbidden: app disabled or over message quotaOther status codes are documented under the appropriate APIs.
∞ EventsAn event consists of a name and data (typically JSON) which may be sent to all subscribers to a particular channel or channels. This is conventionally known as triggering an event.
∞ POST event (trigger an event)POST /apps/[app_id]/events
Triggers an event on one or more channels.
The event data should not be larger than 10KB. If you attempt to POST an event with a larger data parameter, you will receive a 413 error code. If you have a use case that requires a larger message size, get in touch.
NOTE: A previous version of this resource is now considered deprecated but is detailed in the Deprecated section.
∞ Request Parameter Description name Event name (required) data Event data (required) - limited to 10KB channels Array of one or more channel names - limited to 100 channels. channel Channel name if publishing to a single channel (can be used instead of channels) socket_id Excludes the event from being sent to a specific connection (refer to Excluding recipients ) info A comma-separated list of attributes that should be returned for each unique channel triggered to. If this parameter is present, the request will count as two “messages” for billing.NOTE: For POST requests, we recommend including parameters in the JSON body. If using the query string, send arrays as
channels[]=channel1&channels[]=channel2;
. This is more verbose than the JSON representation.
Available info attributes:
Attribute Type Applicable channels Description user_count Integer Presence Number of distinct users currently subscribed to each channel (a single user may be subscribed many times, but will only count as one) subscription_count Integer All (except Presence channels) Number of connections currently subscribed to each channel. This attribute is not available by default. To enable it, navigate to your Channels dashboard, find the app you are working on, and click App Settings. ∞ Successful responseThe event has been received and will be sent asynchronously to all sockets. Response is an empty JSON hash.
If the info
parameter is sent, then it returns a hash of unique channels that were triggered to. The hash maps from channel name to a hash of attributes for that channel (may be empty).
{
"channels": {
"presence-foobar": { "user_count": 42, "subscription_count": 51 },
"presence-another": { "user_count": 123, "subscription_count": 140 },
"another": { "subscription_count": 13 }
}
}
∞ POST batch events (trigger multiple events)NOTE: Counts are computed independently of broadcasting the message to connections. This means the counts do not necessarily match the number of subscribers/users that were published to.
POST /apps/[app_id]/batch_events
Triggers multiple events in a single call (up to 10 per call on the multi-tenant clusters).
The event data should not be larger than 10KB. If you attempt to POST an event with a larger data parameter, you will receive a 413 error code.
∞ Request Parameter Description batch An array of Event objects (see below)Event object:
Parameter Description name Event name (required) data Event data (required) - limited to 10KB channel Channel name (required) socket_id Excludes the event from being sent to a specific connection (refer to Excluding event recipients ) info A comma-separated list of attributes which should be returned for the channel. If this parameter is present, the request will count as two “messages” for billing.Available info attributes:
Attribute Type Applicable channels Description user_count Integer Presence Number of distinct users currently subscribed to the channel (a single user may be subscribed many times, but will only count as one) subscription_count Integer All (except Presence channels) Number of connections currently subscribed to the channel. This attribute is not available by default. To enable it, navigate to your Channels dashboard, click the app you are working on, navigate to App Settings and Enable subscription count toggle. ∞ Successful responseThe event has been received and will be sent asynchronously to all sockets. Response is an empty JSON hash.
If the info
parameter is sent with any events, then it returns a list of attributes for the channels published to. The attributes at index i
will correspond to the channel that event at index i
in the request body was published to.
{
"batch": [
{ "user_count": 42, "subscription_count": 51 },
{},
{ "subscription_count": 13 }
]
}
∞ ChannelsNOTE: Counts are computed independently of broadcasting the message to connections. This means the counts do not necessarily match the number of subscribers/users that were published to.
Channels are identified by name and are used to determine which messages are delivered to which clients. Security may be added by using private or presence channels (identified by name prefix). Channels are created and destroyed automatically whenever clients subscribe or unsubscribe.
∞ GET channels (fetch info for multiple channels)GET /apps/[app_id]/channels
Allows fetching a hash of occupied channels (optionally filtered by prefix), and optionally one or more attributes for each channel.
∞ Request Parameter Description filter_by_prefix Filter the returned channels by a specific prefix. For example in order to return only presence channels you would setfilter_by_prefix=presence-
info A comma-separated list of attributes which should be returned for each channel. If this parameter is missing, an empty hash of attributes will be returned for each channel.
Available info attributes
Attribute Type Applicable channels Description user_count Integer Presence Number of distinct users currently subscribed to this channel (a single user may be subscribed many times, but will only count as one)If an attribute such as user_count
is requested, and the request is not limited to presence channels, the API will return an error (400 code).
Returns a hash of channels mapping from channel name to a hash of attributes for that channel (may be empty)
{
"channels": {
"presence-foobar": { "user_count": 42 },
"presence-another": { "user_count": 123 }
}
}
∞ GET channel (fetch info for one channel)
GET /apps/[app_id]/channels/[channel_name]
Fetch one or some attributes for a given channel.
∞ Request Parameter Description info A comma-separated list of attributes which should be returned for the channel. See the table below for a list of available attributes, and for which channel types.Available info attributes
Attribute Type Applicable channels Description user_count Integer Presence Number of distinct users currently subscribed to this channel (a single user may be subscribed many times, but will only count as one) subscription_count Integer All (except Presence channels) Number of connections currently subscribed to this channel. This attribute is not available by default. To enable it, navigate to your Channels dashboard, click the app you are working on, navigate to App Settings and Enable subscription count toggle. cache Object Cache Cached data and TTL (in seconds) for this channel or null in case the cache is empty.Requesting an attribute which is not available for the requested channel will return an error (for example requesting a the user_count
for a public channel).
Returns a hash describing the state of the channel. The occupied status is always reported, as well as any requested attributes.
{ "occupied": true, "user_count": 42, "subscription_count": 42, "cache": { "data": "event data", ttl: 60 } }
∞ Users ∞ POST terminate user connections
POST /apps/[app_id]/users/[user_id]/terminate_connections
Terminates all connections established by the given user. The user is allowed to reconnect again if nothing else is done. Refer to Terminating user connections for more information on how to prevent users from reconnecting.
∞ RequestNo additional parameters needed or allowed.
∞ Successful responseUser’s connections will be terminated. Response is an empty JSON hash.
∞ GET usersGET /apps/[app_id]/channels/[channel_name]/users
Fetch user IDs of user currently subscribed to a presence channel. This functionality is primarily aimed to complement presence webhooks. It allows you to fetch the initial state of a channel.
∞ RequestNOTE: Only
presence channels
allow this functionality. If you send this request to any other type of channel, you will get a 400 HTTP code.
No additional parameters needed or allowed.
∞ Successful responseReturns an array of subscribed users IDs.
{ "users": [{ "id": "1" }, { "id": "2" }] }
∞ HTTP Keep-Alive
The Channels API supports HTTP Keep-Alive. HTTP client libraries that implement this feature are able to re-use a single TCP connection to send multiple HTTP requests thus avoiding the overhead of the TCP connection (typically 100-200ms) between each subsequent request.
In scenarios where many requests are sent at the same time this can improve the throughput and decrease the load on the machine that is sending those requests.
∞ AuthenticationThe following query parameters must be included with all requests, and are used to authenticate the request.
Parameter Description auth_key Your application key auth_timestamp The number of seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT. The server will only accept requests where the timestamp is within 600s of the current time auth_version Authentication version, currently 1.0The following query parameters must be included for all requests with a non-empty body (for example for POST requests to /events
).
Once all the above parameters have been added to the request, a signature is calculated.
Parameter Description auth_signature Authentication signature, described below ∞ Generating authentication signaturesThe signature is a HMAC SHA256 hex digest. This is generated by signing a string made up of the following components concatenated with newline characters \n
.
POST
)/some/resource
)auth_key
: foo
,Name
: Something else
, you get auth_key=foo&name=Something else
)Here’s an example.
∞ Worked authentication exampleAssume that we wish to trigger the foo
event on the project-3
channel with JSON {'{"some":"data"}'}
and that our app credentials are:
app_id 3 key 278d425bdf160c739803 secret 7ad3773142a6692b25b8
The request url is:
http:
Since this is a POST request, the body should contain a hash of parameters encoded as JSON where the data parameter is itself JSON encoded (the \"
here are ** two characters ** — a backslash and a quote):
{ "name": "foo", "channels": ["project-3"], "data": "{\"some\":\"data\"}" }
Note that these parameters may be provided in the query string, although this is discouraged.
Add the authentication parameters (assume that these are included in the query string, so the body is unchanged from above). Since the body is non-empty a body_md5 parameter should be added:
auth_key 278d425bdf160c739803 auth_timestamp 1353088179 auth_version 1.0 body_md5 ec365a775a4cd0599faeb73354201b6f
The signature is generated by signing the following string (the \n
that you see here is ** one character ** — an actual newline character.):
POST\n/apps/3/events\nauth_key=278d425bdf160c739803&auth_timestamp=1353088179&auth_version=1.0&body_md5=ec365a775a4cd0599faeb73354201b6f
This should be signed by generating the HMAC SHA256 hex digest with the secret key 7ad3773142a6692b25b8
. This provides the following signature:
da454824c97ba181a32ccc17a72625ba02771f50b50e1e7430e47a1f3f457e6c
The api request then becomes:
POST /apps/3/events?auth_key=278d425bdf160c739803&auth_timestamp=1353088179&auth_version=1.0&body_md5=ec365a775a4cd0599faeb73354201b6f&auth_signature=da454824c97ba181a32ccc17a72625ba02771f50b50e1e7430e47a1f3f457e6c HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/json {"name":"foo","channels":["project-3"],"data":"{\"some\":\"data\"}"}
Or using curl:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"foo","channels":["project-3"],"data":"{\"some\":\"data\"}"}' "http://api.pusherapp.com/apps/3/events?auth_key=278d425bdf160c739803&auth_timestamp=1353088179&auth_version=1.0&body_md5=ec365a775a4cd0599faeb73354201b6f&auth_signature=da454824c97ba181a32ccc17a72625ba02771f50b50e1e7430e47a1f3f457e6c"
{}
If you’re having difficulty generating the correct signature in your library, chehck out this example in Ruby.
require 'digest/md5'
require 'hmac-sha2'
app_id = '3'
key = '278d425bdf160c739803'
secret = '7ad3773142a6692b25b8'
body = '{"name":"foo","channels":["project-3"],"data":"{\"some\":\"data\"}"}'
auth_timestamp = '1353088179'
auth_version = '1.0'
body_md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(body)
puts 'Body md5: ' + body_md5
puts
string_to_sign =
"POST\n/apps/" + app_id +
"/events\nauth_key=" + key +
"&auth_timestamp=" + auth_timestamp +
"&auth_version=" + auth_version +
"&body_md5=" + body_md5
puts 'String to sign: ' + string_to_sign
puts
auth_signature = HMAC::SHA256.hexdigest(secret, string_to_sign)
puts 'Auth signature: ' + auth_signature
puts
curl =
'curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d \'' + body +
'\' "http://api.pusherapp.com/apps/' + app_id +
'/events?auth_key=' + key +
'&auth_timestamp=' + auth_timestamp +
'&auth_version=' + auth_version +
'&body_md5=' + body_md5 +
'&auth_signature=' + auth_signature +
'"'
puts 'Curl: ' + curl
puts
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