accountSubscribe

All the specifications for accountSubscribe Websocket Method on Solana

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

Parameters required for this RPC call

• the account address (pubkey), as base-58 encoded string

• configuration object: This contains the following parameters, all are optional fields.

  • commitment: The commitment describes how finalized a block is at that point in time. Commitment levels processed, confirmed and finalized are supported, defaults to finalized.

  • encoding: Encoding format for Account data

    • base58 is slow.

    • jsonParsed encoding attempts to use program-specific state parsers to return more human-readable and explicit account state data

    • If jsonParsed is requested but a parser cannot be found, the field falls back to binary encoding, detectable when the data field is type string.

    • Supports: base58 , base64 , base64+zstd , jsonParsed

Websocket

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "accountSubscribe",
  "params": [
    "CM78CPUeXjn8o3yroDHxUtKsZZgoy4GPkPPXfouKNH12",
    {
      "encoding": "jsonParsed",
      "commitment": "finalized"
    }
  ]
}

Response

Base58

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "accountNotification",
  "params": {
    "result": {
      "context": {
        "slot": 5199307
      },
      "value": {
        "data": [
          "11116bv5nS2h3y12kD1yUKeMZvGcKLSjQgX6BeV7u1FrjeJcKfsHPXHRDEHrBesJhZyqnnq9qJeUuF7WHxiuLuL5twc38w2TXNLxnDbjmuR",
          "base58"
        ],
        "executable": false,
        "lamports": 33594,
        "owner": "11111111111111111111111111111111",
        "rentEpoch": 635,
        "space": 80
      }
    },
    "subscription": 23784
  }
}

Parsed-JSON encoding