# List events, newest first

Events

GET `/v1/events`

Every event of the account, newest first, whether or not a webhook endpoint received it: what webhooks would have delivered. Kept `events_retention_s` (30 days). Free.

**Auth:** an API key with the `account:read` scope, or the dashboard session.

**Test mode:** A test key sees test events only (a test job's job.\* events and webhook.test); credits.\* and api_key.\* events are live only.

## Example

cURL:

```shell
curl 'https://staging.socialtap.dev/v1/events' \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"
```

## Authorizations

`x-api-key`stringheaderrequired

Your API key, with the `account:read` scope. [Authentication](https://staging.socialtap.dev/docs/authentication/index.md)

## Query parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `type` optional | `string`<br>max 64 chars | Only events of this type (an event type, or a prefix wildcard such as job.\*). | — |
| `limit` optional | `integer`<br>min 1<br>max 100 | Events per page (default and maximum 100). | — |
| `cursor` optional | `string`<br>max 200 chars | page.next_cursor of the previous page; omit to start from the newest. | — |

## Response

### 200

List events, newest first

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `data` | `object[]` | This page's items. |
| `data[].data` | `any` | The type's data object (small: a summary plus links). |
| `data[].id` | `string` | The event ID (evt_…): the webhook-id header of every delivery, the same on retries. Deduplicate on it. |
| `data[].object` | `string` | Always event.<br>One of `event` |
| `data[].timestamp` | `string` (date-time) | When it happened. |
| `data[].type` | `string` | The event type (event types table); new types may be added. |
| `meta` | `object` | The shared route meta (see the API reference introduction). |
| `page` | `object` |  |
| `page.end_reason` | `string` or `null` | Why there are no more pages; null while has_more is true. end: the list ended, or reached since/until. platform_limit: the platform stops serving further pages although the list goes on. max_pages: SocialTap's cap on pages in one walk. New values may be added. A short or empty page is not the end: only has_more false is.<br>One of `end`, `platform_limit`, `max_pages` |
| `page.has_more` | `boolean` | True when another page exists; then next_cursor is set. An empty page with has_more true is not the end. |
| `page.next_cursor` | `string` or `null` | Pass as cursor, with the same other parameters, to get the next page; null at the end. |
| `page.next_cursor_expires_at` | `string` (date-time) or `null` | When next_cursor stops working, RFC 3339 UTC; null at the end. Don't store cursors. |

### 400

400 Bad Request.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `invalid_input` | 400 | No | The request parameters are missing or malformed, or the URL is not a supported link for this endpoint. | Fix the parameter named in param (the message says how); for a link of the wrong kind, call the endpoint the message names. |
| `invalid_cursor` | 400 | No | The cursor is malformed, expired, belongs to another endpoint, or the other parameters differ from the request that issued it. | Repeat the original request without cursor to start the list again. |

### 401

401 Unauthorized.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `unauthorized` | 401 | No | The x-api-key header is missing, unknown or revoked (or, on the dashboard's routes, the session cookie is missing or expired). | Send a valid API key in the x-api-key header; without one, get a key at details.signup_url (AI agents: POST details.agent_signup_url). |

### 403

403 Forbidden.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `forbidden` | 403 | No | The API key is valid but may not make this request: its account is suspended, its scopes do not include the route, it is waiting for its owner's email confirmation, it is past its expiry, or the request came from an IP its allowlist does not include. A running job stops the same way when its account is suspended or the key that created it is revoked or expires. It is about the key, never the item (a private item is private_or_unavailable, also 403): branch on the code. | Do what details.reason says: if suspended, contact [support](https://staging.socialtap.dev/docs/index.md); otherwise use a key whose scopes cover the route (details.required_scope), have the owner confirm the emailed link, create a new key, or call from an allowed IP. |

### 429

429 Too Many Requests.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `rate_limited` | 429 | Yes, later | The account exceeded its runaway-protection ceiling: plans do not limit request rate, but a high per-account safety ceiling stops broken client loops. Support raises it on request. Without an API key (signup, the MCP server's tool listing and find_endpoint), requests are limited per IP address instead. | Wait for the number of seconds in the retry-after header, then retry; ask [support](https://staging.socialtap.dev/docs/index.md) to raise the ceiling if your sustained traffic needs more (calls without an API key: use one). |

## Test mode

A test key sees test events only (a test job's job.\* events and webhook.test); credits.\* and api_key.\* events are live only.

operationId `events.list`

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