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40 lines
1.3 KiB
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Streaming API
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Your application can use a server-sent events endpoint to receive updates in real-time. Server-sent events is an incredibly simple transport method that relies entirely on chunked-encoding transfer, i.e. the HTTP connection is kept open and receives new data periodically.
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### Endpoints:
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**GET /api/v1/streaming/user**
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Returns events that are relevant to the authorized user, i.e. home timeline and notifications
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**GET /api/v1/streaming/public**
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Returns all public statuses
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**GET /api/v1/streaming/hashtag**
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Returns all public statuses for a particular hashtag (query param `tag`)
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### Stream contents
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The stream will contain events as well as heartbeat comments. Lines that begin with a colon (`:`) can be ignored by parsers, they are simply there to keep the connection open. Events have this structure:
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```
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event: name
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data: payload
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```
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[See MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_events/Using_server-sent_events#Event_stream_format)
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### Event types
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|Event|Description|What's in the payload|
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|-----|-----------|---------------------|
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|`update`|A new status has appeared!|Status|
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|`notification`|A new notification|Notification|
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|`delete`|A status has been deleted|ID of the deleted status|
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The payload is JSON-encoded.
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