Real-time API

Real-time edits, on your production website

Say goodbye to dedicated preview servers. Thanks to our real-time API, you will completely change the way you work and interact with your content with just a couple of lines of code on your frontend website.
Real-time API + content preview

Preview changes as they get authored, no refresh needed

Instead of the API consumer only getting the new data upon their next query, with DatoCMS's Real-time Updates, new data is instantly pushed to them.

“ For our clients, being able to instantly view the result of their changes on the final site is simply critical. The fact that you don't need a staging server, and you don't even have to refresh the page, well, that's the icing on the cake that makes everything wow. ”

Martijn Theuwissen
Lead frontend developer @ Atoms
Live blog
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Live real-time API

Need to cover live events as they happen?

The same API used to preview draft content can also be applied to offer real-time updates to your website's final visitors . Our infrastructure can easily handle thousands of live users with multiple updates per minute.

Try the Live-blog demo for Next.js

Real-time GraphQL API

GraphQL and Server-Sent Events, to deliver the best developer ergonomic

The Real-time Updates API uses Server-Sent Events, which is a protocol supported natively from all modern browsers, to transform your regular GraphQL into streaming subscriptions. Using our React and Vue libraries you can get started in literally seconds.

APIs + Worldwide CDN

A complete set of smart, modern APIs

DatoCMS does not only offer a powerful real-time API but a full coordinated suite of different APIs and tools to work seamlessly with the three fundamental blocks of content: text, images and video. Everything is built on CDN, optimized for speed and scalability.

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