Solana accountSubscribe RPC Method

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

Parameters#

stringrequired

Account Pubkey, as base-58 encoded string

objectoptional

Configuration object containing the following fields:

commitmentstringoptional

The commitment describes how finalized a block is at that point in time.

encodingstringoptional

Encoding format for Account data

Values:base58base64base64+zstdjsonParsed

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 datafield is typestring.

Result#

<number> - Subscription id (needed to unsubscribe)

Code sample#

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

Response#

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "result": 23784, "id": 1 }

Notification Format:#

The notification format is the same as seen in the getAccountInfo RPC HTTP method.

Base58 encoding:

{
  "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:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "accountNotification",
  "params": {
    "result": {
      "context": {
        "slot": 5199307
      },
      "value": {
        "data": {
          "program": "nonce",
          "parsed": {
            "type": "initialized",
            "info": {
              "authority": "Bbqg1M4YVVfbhEzwA9SpC9FhsaG83YMTYoR4a8oTDLX",
              "blockhash": "LUaQTmM7WbMRiATdMMHaRGakPtCkc2GHtH57STKXs6k",
              "feeCalculator": {
                "lamportsPerSignature": 5000
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "executable": false,
        "lamports": 33594,
        "owner": "11111111111111111111111111111111",
        "rentEpoch": 635,
        "space": 80
      }
    },
    "subscription": 23784
  }
}