---
title: "Get Live Count"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-live-count/
description: "This page describes the method to retrieve the number of active subscribers connected to a Data Streams channel in your Python application with sample code snippets."
last_updated: 2026-08-13T11:41:55Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Data Streams Help"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/data-streams/introduction
  - name: "SDK Scopes"
    url: /en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes
---

# Get Live Count

[Catalyst Data Streams](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/data-streams/introduction/) allows you to track the number of active subscribers currently connected to a specific channel. This is useful for monitoring channel activity and implementing conditional logic based on subscriber presence.

You can retrieve the live subscriber count by passing the channel ID to the `get_live_count()` method. The `data_streams` reference used below is the component instance created earlier. To know more about this instance, please refer to [this section](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-component-instance/).

**Parameters Used**

<table class="content-table">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th class="w20p">Parameter Name</th>
			<th class="w20p">Data Type</th>
			<th class="w60p">Definition</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>`channel_id`</td>
			<td>String</td>
			<td>A **Mandatory** parameter. Holds the unique ID of the channel.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

```python
# Get live count (active subscribers)
live_count = data_streams.get_live_count("CHANNEL_ID")
```