---
title: "Get Live Count"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/api/code-reference/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-live-count/
description: "This API retrieves the number of active live clients currently connected to a specific Datastream channel."
last_updated: 2026-07-07T05:22:22Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: api
---

# Get Live Count

### Description

This API retrieves the number of active live clients currently connected to a specific [Datastream channel](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/data-streams/introduction/).

### Request Details

#### Request URL

`GET` {api-domain}/baas/v1/project/{project_id}/datastreams/channel/{channel_name}/liveclient

- **api-domain** (URL): The DC-specific domain used to access Catalyst APIs

- **project_id** (Numerical): The [unique ID](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/getting-started/set-up-a-catalyst-project/general-settings/) of the Catalyst project

- **channel_name** (String): The name of the Datastream channel

#### Request Headers
 **Authorization:** Zoho-oauthtoken {oauth_token}

**Optional Headers** 

 **CATALYST-ORG:** {org_id}

 **Environment:** Development

#### Scope

ZohoCatalyst.datastreams.connections.READ

### Response Details

On successful execution, the response contains the count of live clients or list of subscribers currently connected to the specified Datastream channel.

**Sample Request**

```bash
curl -X GET \
  https://api.catalyst.zoho.com/baas/v1/project/20084000000589014/datastreams/channel/testing/liveclient \
  -H "Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken 1000.f53426c0cee59aaa57f1f158f5f271ca.ba782e5510151a126a08232e7958b24d" \
  -H "CATALYST-ORG: 89773766" \
  -H "Environment: Development"

```

### SDK Documentation

[Get Live Count- Java SDK](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/java/v1/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-live-count/)

[Get Live Count- Node.js SDK](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/nodejs/v2/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-live-count/)

[Get Live Count- Python SDK](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-live-count/)