AsyncAPI channel · Stream · Stream Chat Realtime WebSocket API

/connect

The single multiplexed WebSocket channel. After the handshake, the server pushes all real-time events for the connected user across every channel they watch, and the client publishes keep-alive `health.check` events.

Open source AsyncAPI → All Stream channels Stream provider profile
Provider: Stream AsyncAPI: v2.6.0 Spec: Stream Chat Realtime WebSocket API Operations: 2 Messages: 12

Channel address

/connect

Operations

publish
sendKeepAlive
Send keep-alive events to Stream.
receiveEvents
Receive real-time chat events pushed by Stream.

Messages

health.check
Connection keep-alive; the first one carries the connection_id.
Content-Type: application/json
message.new
A new message was sent to a channel the user watches.
Content-Type: application/json
message.updated
Message updated
Content-Type: application/json
message.deleted
Message deleted
Content-Type: application/json
message.read
A user marked a channel read; unread counts changed.
Content-Type: application/json
reaction.new
New reaction
Content-Type: application/json
typing.start
Typing started
Content-Type: application/json
typing.stop
Typing stopped
Content-Type: application/json
user.presence.changed
A watched user's online/offline presence changed.
Content-Type: application/json
user.watching.start
User started watching a channel
Content-Type: application/json
notification.message_new
A new message arrived in a channel the user is a member of but is not currently watching.
Content-Type: application/json
notification.added_to_channel
Notification - added to a channel
Content-Type: application/json

About AsyncAPI

The AsyncAPI specification describes event-driven APIs the way OpenAPI describes request/response APIs. A channel is the named pipe — a webhook URL, a Kafka topic, a WebSocket route, an MQTT subject — that producers and consumers publish or subscribe to. Each channel carries one or more messages with structured payloads, and an operation declares whether a given party sends or receives on that channel.

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