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Platform API

Overview
Migrating to Sendbird
Prepare to use API
- User
- Overview
- - Listing users
  - List users
  - Get a user
- - Creating users
  - Create a user
- - Managing users
  - Update a user
  - Delete a user
- - Managing session tokens
  - Issue a session token
  - Revoke all session tokens
- - Managing joined group channels
  - List group channels by user
  - Leave group channels
- - Getting group channel count
  - Get number of channels by join status
- - Marking messages as read
  - Mark all of a user's messages as read
- - Managing metadata
  - Get metadata
  - Create metadata
  - Update metadata
  - Delete metadata
- Channel
- Overview
- - Listing channels in an application
  - List open channels
  - Get an open channel
  - List group channels
  - Get a group channel
- - Creating a channel
  - Create an open channel
  - Create a group channel
- - Inviting a user
  - Invite as members
  - Accept an invitation
  - Decline an invitation
- - Managing metacounter
  - Get metacounter
  - Create metacounter
  - Update metacounter
  - Delete metacounter
- - Managing metadata
  - Get metadata
  - Create metadata
  - Update metadata
  - Delete metadata
- - Managing typing indicators
  - Start typing indicators
  - Stop typing indicators
- Application
- Overview
- - Setting up an application
  - Get global application settings
  - Update global application settings
- - Managing API tokens
  - List secondary API tokens
  - Get a secondary API token
  - Generate a secondary API token
  - Revoke a secondary API token
- - Managing IP whitelist
  - Get an IP whitelist
  - Add an IP to a whitelist
  - Delete IPs from a whitelist
- - Managing auto event messages
  - List auto event messages
  - Configure auto event message settings
- - Understanding rate limits
  - Rate limits
- - Getting failed webhooks
  - Get failed webhooks
- Organization
- Overview
- - Managing application
  - List applications
  - Get an application
  - Create an application
  - Delete an application
  - Copy application settings
- - Managing features
  - List features
  - Update a feature
- - Managing members
  - List members
  - Get a member
  - Update a member
  - Deactivate a member
- - Managing roles
  - List predefined roles
  - List custom roles
- Push notifications
- FCM migration guide
- Overview
- - Managing FCM configurations
  - Add an FCM push configuration
  - Update an FCM push configuration
- - Managing HMS configurations
  - Add an HMS push configuration
  - Update an HMS push configuration
- - Managing APNS configurations
  - Add an APNs push configuration
  - Update an APNs push configuration
  - Delete an APNs certificate
- Statistics
- Overview
- - Advanced analytics
  - Get advanced analytics metrics
- - Concurrent connections
  - Get number of concurrent connections
- - DAUs & MAUs
  - Get number of daily active users
  - Get number of monthly active users
- - Peak connections
  - Get number of peak connections
- Data export
- Overview
- - Listing data exports
  - List data exports by message, channel, or user
  - Get a data export
- - Scheduling data exports
  - Register and schedule a data export
- Bot
- Overview
- - Listing bots
  - List bots
  - Get a bot
- - Creating a bot
  - Create a bot
- - Sending a bot message
  - Send a bot message
  - Send a streaming message
- - Managing a bot
  - Update a bot
  - Join channels
  - Leave channels
  - Delete a bot
- Report
- Overview
- - Creating a report
  - Report a user
  - Report a channel
  - Report a message
- Webhook
- Overview
- - Managing subscribed events
  - Get a list of subscribed events
  - Choose events to subscribe
- Privacy
- Overview
- - Listing GDPR requests
  - List GDPR requests
  - Get a GDPR request
- - Creating a GDPR request
  - Register a GDPR request
- - Managing GDPR requests
  - Cancel the registration of a GDPR request
Deprecated
Error codes

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Get number of unread messages

This action retrieves a user's total number of unread messages in group channels.

Note: The unread count feature is only available for group channels.

HTTP request

GET https://api-{application_id}.sendbird.com/v3/users/{user_id}/unread_message_count

Parameters

The following table lists the parameters that this action supports.

Parameters

Required	Type	Description
user_id	string	Specifies the unique ID of a user.

Optional	Type	Description
custom_types	string	Specifies a comma-separated string of one or more custom types to filter group channels. URL encoding each type is recommended. If not specified, all channels are returned, regardless of their custom type.
super_mode	string	Restricts the search scope to either Supergroup channels or non-Supergroup channels or both. Acceptable values are `all`, `super`, and `nonsuper`. (Default: `all`)

Responses

If successful, this action returns the total number of the user's unread messages in the group channels in the response body.

Status: 200 OK

{
    "unread_count": 7
}

List of response properties

Property name	Type	Description
unread_count	long	The total number of the user's unread messages.

Error

In the case of an error, an error object like below is returned. See the error codes section for more details.

Status: 400 Bad Request

{
    "message": "\"User\" not found.",
    "code": 400201,
    "error": true
}

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