Novu Inbox API

The in-app notification feed for a subscriber.

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OpenAPI Specification

novu-co-inbox-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Novu Environments Inbox API
  description: 'The Novu REST API drives open-source notification infrastructure that sends multi-channel messages - email, SMS, push, chat, and an in-app Inbox - from a single workflow trigger. A trigger event fans a notification out across the channels defined in a workflow. This document models the core resources - Events (Trigger), Subscribers, Topics, the in-app Inbox feed, Messages, Notifications (activity), Workflows, Integrations, Layouts, subscriber Preferences, Environments, and Translations. Novu is open source (MIT) and self-hostable, and also runs as Novu Cloud with US and EU regions. All requests authenticate with a secret API key sent as `Authorization: ApiKey <NOVU_SECRET_KEY>`. Endpoints are grounded in Novu''s published API reference; request/response bodies are modeled at a representative level rather than field-complete.'
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Novu
    url: https://novu.co
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://github.com/novuhq/novu/blob/next/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://api.novu.co/v1
  description: Novu Cloud - US (default)
- url: https://eu.api.novu.co/v1
  description: Novu Cloud - EU
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Inbox
  description: The in-app notification feed for a subscriber.
paths:
  /subscribers/{subscriberId}/notifications/feed:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SubscriberId'
    get:
      operationId: getInAppNotificationFeed
      tags:
      - Inbox
      summary: Retrieve the in-app notification feed
      description: Returns the paginated in-app (Inbox) notification feed for a subscriber. This is the same feed the embeddable Inbox component renders and receives live updates for over the WebSocket described in the AsyncAPI document.
      parameters:
      - name: page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 0
      - name: limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
      - name: read
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A page of in-app notifications.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InAppFeedResponse'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /subscribers/{subscriberId}/notifications/unseen:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SubscriberId'
    get:
      operationId: getUnseenCount
      tags:
      - Inbox
      summary: Retrieve unseen count
      description: Returns the number of unseen in-app notifications for the subscriber - the value pushed live as unseen_count_changed over the WebSocket.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The unseen count.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      count:
                        type: integer
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /subscribers/{subscriberId}/messages/markAs:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SubscriberId'
    post:
      operationId: markMessagesAs
      tags:
      - Inbox
      summary: Mark in-app messages as seen/read
      description: Marks one or more in-app messages as seen or read for the subscriber.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - messageId
              - mark
              properties:
                messageId:
                  oneOf:
                  - type: string
                  - type: array
                    items:
                      type: string
                mark:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    seen:
                      type: boolean
                    read:
                      type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Updated messages.
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        statusCode:
          type: integer
        message:
          type: string
        error:
          type: string
    InAppFeedResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/InAppNotification'
        totalCount:
          type: integer
        page:
          type: integer
        pageSize:
          type: integer
        hasMore:
          type: boolean
    InAppNotification:
      type: object
      properties:
        _id:
          type: string
        _feedId:
          type: string
        content:
          type: string
        read:
          type: boolean
        seen:
          type: boolean
        archived:
          type: boolean
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        payload:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
        cta:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  parameters:
    SubscriberId:
      name: subscriberId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Your application's unique identifier for the subscriber.
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: 'Novu secret API key from the Dashboard API Keys page, sent as `Authorization: ApiKey <NOVU_SECRET_KEY>`.'