accountSubscribe

(Subscription Websocket) Subscribe to an account to receive notifications when the lamports or data for a given account public key changes.

This method will use 20 Compute Units.

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Parameters

• Pubkey string. The public key of account to query encoded as base-58 string.

• object optional. Configuration object containing the following fields:

  • commitment string. The level of commitment required for the query. The options include:

    • finalized string. The node will query the most recent block confirmed by the supermajority of the cluster as having reached maximum lockout, meaning the cluster has recognized this block as finalized.

    • confirmed string. The node will query the most recent block that has been voted on by the supermajority of the cluster.

    • processed string. The node will query its most recent block. Note that the block may not be complete.

  • encoding string. The encoding format for account data. It can be one of base58 (slow), base64, base64+zstd or jsonParsed.

Returns

result integer. The result will be an RpcResponse JSON object with id equal to the subscription id (needed to unsubscribe).

Notification Format: The notification format is the same as seen in the getAccountInfo RPC HTTP method.

// Result
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "result": 23784, "id": 1 }

mainnet

wscat -c wss://mainnet.solana.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>
# wait for connection
{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"accountSubscribe","params":["Ec37CQZjwRgGnuMmUi3BnEBXS5Xa3siakAPxPkHtahSf",{"encoding": "jsonParsed", "commitment": "finalized"}]}
    

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