Pushover

Pushover is a simple push notification service that delivers real-time notifications to phones, tablets, desktops, and watches from servers, scripts, and applications. The Pushover Message API accepts HTTPS POSTs with an application token and user/group key to send formatted messages with priorities, sounds, images, and supplementary URLs. Additional APIs exist for groups, subscriptions, licensing, receipts, and Open Client.

Pushover publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Open Client API, Apps API, Messages.json API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Notification, Push Notifications, Messaging, Alerts, and Monitoring.

Pushover’s developer surface includes documentation, pricing, signup flow, FAQ, support, engineering blog, and 5 more developer resources.

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31.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

6 APIs

Notification Push Notifications Messaging Alerts Monitoring

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 31.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.3 / 20

Access Clarity 4.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

FAQ

FAQ

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pushover
name: Pushover
description: Pushover is a simple push notification service that delivers real-time notifications to phones, tablets, desktops,
  and watches from servers, scripts, and applications. The Pushover Message API accepts HTTPS POSTs with an application token
  and user/group key to send formatted messages with priorities, sounds, images, and supplementary URLs. Additional APIs exist
  for groups, subscriptions, licensing, receipts, and Open Client.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pushover.png
tags:
- Notification
- Push Notifications
- Messaging
- Alerts
- Monitoring
tags_raw:
- Notifications
- Push Notifications
- Messaging
- Alerts
- Monitoring
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pushover/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: pushover:open-client-api
  name: Pushover Open Client API
  description: Real-time client API for Pushover. Combines a WebSocket channel at wss://client.pushover.net/push that streams
    single-byte control frames (`#` keepalive, `!` new message, `R` reload, `E` permanent error, `A` session closed) with
    REST channels for user login, device registration, message download, deletion, and emergency-priority acknowledgement.
  humanURL: https://pushover.net/api/client
  baseURL: https://client.pushover.net
  tags:
  - Notification
  - Push Notifications
  - WebSocket
  - Real-Time
  - Streaming
  tags_raw:
  - Notifications
  - Push Notifications
  - WebSocket
  - Real-Time
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pushover.net/api/client
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pushover/refs/heads/main/openapi/pushover-asyncapi.yml
- aid: pushover:pushover-apps-api
  name: Pushover Apps API
  description: The Apps API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for apps.
  humanURL: https://pushover.net/api
  baseURL: https://api.pushover.net/1
  tags:
  - Application
  tags_raw:
  - Apps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pushover-apps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pushover.net/api
  - type: Groups API
    url: https://pushover.net/api/groups
  - type: Subscriptions
    url: https://pushover.net/api/subscriptions
  - type: Receipts
    url: https://pushover.net/api#receipt
  - type: Open Client
    url: https://pushover.net/api/client
- aid: pushover:pushover-messages-json-api
  name: Pushover Messages.json API
  description: The Messages.json API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for messages.json.
  humanURL: https://pushover.net/api
  baseURL: https://api.pushover.net/1
  tags:
  - Messages.json
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pushover-messages-json-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pushover.net/api
  - type: Groups API
    url: https://pushover.net/api/groups
  - type: Subscriptions
    url: https://pushover.net/api/subscriptions
  - type: Receipts
    url: https://pushover.net/api#receipt
  - type: Open Client
    url: https://pushover.net/api/client
- aid: pushover:pushover-receipts-api
  name: Pushover Receipts API
  description: The Receipts API from Pushover — 2 operation(s) for receipts.
  humanURL: https://pushover.net/api
  baseURL: https://api.pushover.net/1
  tags:
  - Receipts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pushover-receipts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pushover.net/api
  - type: Groups API
    url: https://pushover.net/api/groups
  - type: Subscriptions
    url: https://pushover.net/api/subscriptions
  - type: Receipts
    url: https://pushover.net/api#receipt
  - type: Open Client
    url: https://pushover.net/api/client
- aid: pushover:pushover-sounds-json-api
  name: Pushover Sounds.json API
  description: The Sounds.json API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for sounds.json.
  humanURL: https://pushover.net/api
  baseURL: https://api.pushover.net/1
  tags:
  - Sounds.json
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pushover-sounds-json-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pushover.net/api
  - type: Groups API
    url: https://pushover.net/api/groups
  - type: Subscriptions
    url: https://pushover.net/api/subscriptions
  - type: Receipts
    url: https://pushover.net/api#receipt
  - type: Open Client
    url: https://pushover.net/api/client
- aid: pushover:pushover-users-api
  name: Pushover Users API
  description: The Users API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://pushover.net/api
  baseURL: https://api.pushover.net/1
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pushover-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pushover.net/api
  - type: Groups API
    url: https://pushover.net/api/groups
  - type: Subscriptions
    url: https://pushover.net/api/subscriptions
  - type: Receipts
    url: https://pushover.net/api#receipt
  - type: Open Client
    url: https://pushover.net/api/client
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pushover-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pushover-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pushoverapp
- type: Website
  url: https://pushover.net
- type: Documentation
  url: https://pushover.net/api
- type: Pricing
  url: https://pushover.net/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://pushover.net/signup
- type: FAQ
  url: https://pushover.net/faq
- type: Support
  url: https://pushover.net/support
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.pushover.net
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.pushover.net/rss
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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APIs 6

Pushover Open Client API

Pushover Apps API

Pushover Messages.json API

Pushover Receipts API

Pushover Sounds.json API

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Open Collections 8

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