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Start Live Activity

post

/messages/live_activity/start

Use this endpoint to remotely start Live Activities displayed in your iOS app. This endpoint requires additional setup.

After you create a Live Activity, you can make a POST request to remotely start your activity for any given segment. For more information about Apple’s Live Activities, see Starting and updating Live Activities with ActivityKit push notifications.

Prerequisites

To use this endpoint, you’ll need to complete the following:

  • Generate an API key with the messages.live_activity.start permission.
  • Create a Live Activity using the Braze Swift SDK.

Rate limit

We apply the default Braze rate limit of 250,000 requests per hour to this endpoint, as documented in API rate limits.

Request body

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{
  "app_id": "(required, string) App API identifier retrieved from the Developer Console.",
  "activity_id": "(required, string) Define a custom string as your `activity_id`. You will use this ID when you wish to send update or end events to your Live Activity.",
  "activity_attributes_type": "(required, string) The activity attributes type you define within `liveActivities.registerPushToStart` in your app",
  "activity_attributes": "(required, object) The static attribute values for the activity type (such as the sports team names, which don't change)",
  "content_state": "(required, object) You define the ContentState parameters when you create your Live Activity. Pass the updated values for your ContentState using this object. The format of this request must match the shape you initially defined.",
  "dismissal_date": "(optional, datetime in ISO-8601 format) The time to remove the Live Activity from the user’s UI. If this time is in the past, the Live Activity will be removed immediately.",
  "stale_date": "(optional, datetime in ISO-8601 format) The time the Live Activity content is marked as outdated in the user’s UI.",
  "notification": "(required, object) Include an `apple_push` object to define a push notification that creates an alert for the user, displayed on paired watchOS devices. Should include `notification.alert.title` and `notification.alert.body`",
  // One of the following:
  "external_user_ids": "(optional, array of strings) see external user identifier",
  "custom_audience": "(optional, connected audience object) see connected audience",
  "segment_id": "(optional, string) see segment identifier"
}

Request parameters

Example request

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curl --location --request POST 'https://rest.iad-01.braze.com/messages/live_activity/start' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {YOUR-REST-API-KEY}' \
--data-raw '{
    "app_id": "{YOUR-APP-API-IDENTIFIER}",
    "activity_id": "football-chiefs-bills-2024-01-21",
    "content_state": {
        "teamOneScore": 0,
        "teamTwoScore": 0
    },
    "activity_attributes_type": "FootballActivity",
    "activity_attributes": {
        "team1Name": "Chiefs",
        "team2Name": "Bills"
    },
    "dismissal_date": "2024-01-22T00:00:00+0000",
    "stale_date": "2024-01-22T16:55:49+0000",
    "notification": {
        "alert": {
            "body": "The game is starting! Tune in soon!",
            "title": "Chiefs v. Bills"
        }
    },
    // One of the following required:
    "segment_id": "{YOUR-SEGMENT-API-IDENTIFIER}", // Optional
    "custom_audience": {...}, // Optional
    "external_user_ids": ["user-id1", "user-id2"], // Optional
}'

Response

There are two status code responses for this endpoint: 201 and 4XX.

Example success response

A 201 status code is returned if the request was formatted correctly and we received the request. The status code 201 could return the following response body.

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{
  "message": "success"
}

Example error response

The 4XX class of status code indicates a client error. Refer to the API errors and responses article for more information about errors you may encounter.

The status code 400 could return the following response body.

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{
    "error": "\nProblem:\n  message body does not match declared format\nResolution:\n  when specifying application/json as content-type, you must pass valid application/json in the request's 'body' "
}
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