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 API contracts indexed 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.

The Pushover catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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

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28.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 16/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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Notification Push Notifications Messaging Alerts Monitoring

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Composite quality — 28.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.5 / 15

Access Clarity 2.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
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Developer Ergonomics scores 16.7 — up to +16.7 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 19.1 — up to +16.2 composite points Ask about this →
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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Mobile SDK Publishers (Play SDK Index, CocoaPods, ADA certification)	covered	11.7	-	-
Raycast Store Extensions (first-party publishers + community-wrapped products)	covered	11.7	-	-
IFTTT Services (service publishers)	covered	11.7	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

AsyncAPI

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APIs 6

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

Pushover Open Client API

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` re...

Pushover Apps API

The Apps API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for apps.

Pushover Messages.json API

The Messages.json API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for messages.json.

Pushover Receipts API

The Receipts API from Pushover — 2 operation(s) for receipts.

Pushover Sounds.json API

The Sounds.json API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for sounds.json.

Pushover Users API

The Users API from Pushover — 1 operation(s) for users.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pushover Message Apps API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pushover Open Client API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pushover Message Apps Messages.json API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pushover Message Apps Receipts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pushover Message Apps Sounds.json API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pushover Message Apps Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pushover Message API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Pushover

SLA

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Pushover API Rules

47 rules · 45 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Pushover Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Pushover Agentic Access

6 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  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

Pushover API — frequently asked questions

Does Pushover have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Pushover, including Pushover Open Client API, Pushover Apps API and Pushover Messages.json API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Pushover API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Pushover, each linked for download from this page.

Is the Pushover API ready for AI agents?

Pushover has a Kin Score of 28.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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