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Svix API
Welcome to the Svix API documentation! Useful links: Homepage | Support email | Blog | Slack Community # Introduction This is the reference documentation and schemas for the Svix webhook service API. For tutorials and other documentation please refer to the documentation. ## Main concepts In Svix you have four important entities you will be interacting with: - `messages`: these are the webhooks being sent. They can have contents and a few other properties. - `application`: this is where `messages` are sent to. Usually you want to create one application for each user on your platform. - `endpoint`: endpoints are the URLs messages will be sent to. Each application can have multiple `endpoints` and each message sent to that application will be sent to all of them (unless they are not subscribed to the sent event type). - `event-type`: event types are identifiers denoting the type of the message being sent. Event types are primarily used to decide which events are sent to which endpoint. ## Authentication Get your authentication token (`AUTH_TOKEN`) from the Svix dashboard and use it as part of the `Authorization` header as such: `Authorization: Bearer ${AUTH_TOKEN}`. ## Code samples T
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Authentication
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First-request sequence
- Identify the current base URL, version, and endpoint for the use case.
- Confirm how credentials are issued and where they may be stored.
- Test success, invalid input, throttling, unavailable data, and timeouts.
- Record response fields, pagination, caching, and error shapes.
- Add monitoring, retries with backoff, and an appropriate fallback.
Questions to resolve before production
Pricing and quotas
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Endpoint coverage
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Reliability
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Data and privacy
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Versioning
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Developer experience
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Source reference
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