# Apache Kafka Consumer API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-consumer-api/  
**Provider:** Apache Kafka — https://apis.io/providers/apache-kafka/  
**Documentation:** https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#consumerapi

Apache Kafka Consumer API is one of 16 APIs that [Apache Kafka](https://apis.io/providers/apache-kafka/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include Consumer, Messaging, and Streaming. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an AsyncAPI specification.

API for subscribing to topics and processing streams of records.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#consumerapi
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-kafka/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/apache-kafka-asyncapi.yml

## Other Apache Kafka APIs (12)

- [Apache Kafka Messaging API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/kafka-messaging-api/)
- [Apache Kafka ACL API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-acl-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Broker API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-broker-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Cluster API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-cluster-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Connectors API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-connectors-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Consumer Group API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-consumer-group-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Offsets API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-offsets-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Partition API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-partition-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Plugins API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-plugins-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Records API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-records-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Tasks API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-tasks-api/)
- [Apache Kafka Topic API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-kafka/apache-kafka-topic-api/)

## Tags

Consumer, Messaging, Streaming

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