# Kafka Consumer API

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

Kafka Consumer API is one of 5 APIs that [Apache Kafka](https://apis.io/providers/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/kafka/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/kafka-asyncapi.yml

## Other Apache Kafka APIs (4)

- [Kafka Producer API](https://apis.io/apis/kafka/producer-api/)
- [Kafka Streams API](https://apis.io/apis/kafka/streams-api/)
- [Kafka Connect REST API](https://apis.io/apis/kafka/connect-api/)
- [Kafka Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/kafka/admin-api/)

## Tags

Consumer, Messaging, Streaming

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