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Sanity Listen API

The Sanity Listen API provides real-time event streaming via Server-Sent Events (SSE) for content changes in a dataset. Clients can subscribe to a GROQ query and receive real-time notifications when matching documents change.

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GET /data/listen/{dataset} Listen for Changes #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Sanity HTTP Listen API
  description: The Sanity HTTP API provides access to the Sanity Content Lake platform, enabling querying, mutating, and managing structured content. The API supports GROQ queries, real-time event streaming, asset management, project management, webhooks, scheduling, and AI-powered content agents. Authentication uses Bearer tokens generated from Sanity project settings.
  version: v2024-01-01
  contact:
    name: Sanity Support
    url: https://www.sanity.io/docs
  license:
    name: Commercial
    url: https://www.sanity.io/legal/terms
servers:
- url: https://{projectId}.api.sanity.io/v{apiVersion}
  description: Sanity project-scoped API endpoint
  variables:
    projectId:
      description: Your Sanity project ID
      default: your-project-id
    apiVersion:
      description: API version date (YYYY-MM-DD)
      default: '2024-01-01'
- url: https://api.sanity.io/v{apiVersion}
  description: Sanity management API endpoint
  variables:
    apiVersion:
      description: API version date
      default: '2024-01-01'
security:
- BearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Listen
  description: Real-time event streaming
paths:
  /data/listen/{dataset}:
    get:
      operationId: listenForChanges
      summary: Listen for Changes
      description: Subscribe to real-time content changes via Server-Sent Events (SSE). The connection stays open and streams events when GROQ-matching documents are created, updated, or deleted.
      tags:
      - Listen
      parameters:
      - name: dataset
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: query
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: GROQ query defining which documents to listen to
      - name: includeResult
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
        description: Include full document in change events
      - name: visibility
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - query
          - transaction
      responses:
        '200':
          description: SSE stream of change events
          content:
            text/event-stream:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Sanity project API token

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