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WSS Overview

Overview and general information about the Polymarket Websocket

Overview

The Polymarket CLOB API provides websocket (wss) channels through which clients can get pushed updates. These endpoints allow clients to maintain almost real-time views of their orders, their trades and markets in general. There are two available channels user and market.

Subscription

To subscribe send a message including the following authentication and intent information upon opening the connection.

Field Type Description
auth Auth see next page for auth information
markets string[] array of markets (condition IDs) to receive events for (for user channel)
assets_ids string[] array of asset ids (token IDs) to receive events for (for market channel)
type string id of channel to subscribe to (USER or MARKET)
custom_feature_enabled bool enabling / disabling custom features

Where the auth field is of type Auth which has the form described in the WSS Authentication section below.

Subscribe to more assets

Once connected, the client can subscribe and unsubscribe to asset_ids by sending the following message:

Field Type Description
assets_ids string[] array of asset ids (token IDs) to receive events for (for market channel)
markets string[] array of market ids (condition IDs) to receive events for (for user channel)
operation string "subscribe" or "unsubscribe"
custom_feature_enabled bool enabling / disabling custom features