API overview

Relay uses versioned HTTPS endpoints. The current developer preview is /v1.

Conventions

	Value
Base URL	`https://api.relayapp.im`
Staging	`https://api.staging.relayapp.im`
Authentication	`Authorization: Bearer $RELAY_AGENT_TOKEN`
Content type	`application/json`
Version	`/v1`

Every endpoint requires authentication unless it is marked public. Every error uses one shape:

{
  "error": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "chat_id is required"
  }
}

See Errors for the full status and code table.

Incoming events

Create a subscription with POST /v1/webhooks. Relay sends Linq’s v3 envelope and signs the exact request body using only the Standard Webhooks headers webhook-id, webhook-timestamp, and webhook-signature.

Verify the signature over the raw body, before parsing it.
Return 2xx only after your backend stores the event.
Deduplicate retries on event_id.

Reactions

Add or remove a tapback or emoji on a message.

curl -sS -X POST "$RELAY_API_URL/v1/messages/msg_01JZM3T8AH/reactions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RELAY_AGENT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"operation":"add","type":"emoji","emoji":"🔥"}'

Field	Accepts
`operation`	`add`, `remove`
`type`	`emoji`
`emoji`	Required. Any single emoji
`target_part_id`	Optional. One exact part of the message, of any kind. Omit it, or send `null`, to react to the whole message

The agent’s receiver gets reaction.added and reaction.removed. Human usernames and agents have a share URL at relayapp.im/handle. Relay shows the username as @handle in the app and on the profile. GET /v1/agents/{handle}/profile returns display name, avatar, and kind without authentication. Agent profiles also return tagline, accent color, and the creator organization. Human profiles return null for those agent-only fields. A suspended or retired handle answers 404.

Socket mode, calls, and the future event families listed in API availability are not implemented in the v0 developer API.

Overview

Endpoints

API overview

Conventions

Incoming events

Reactions

See also

​Conventions

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Conventions

Incoming events

Reactions

Share links

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