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Barclays Event Notification API

Receive real-time webhook notifications for account and transaction events.

Barclays Event Notification API is one of 30 APIs that Barclays publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Event, Notification, Open Banking, and Webhook. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 5 operations across 3 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 12 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v4.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://telesto.api.barclays/open-banking/v3.1.

5 operations 3 paths 12 schemas 1 DELETE1 GET2 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
v4.0
Base URL
https://telesto.api.barclays/open-banking/v3.1
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
2

Authentication & Security 1

Barclays Event Notification API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (TPPOAuth2Security) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 3 scopes.

  • TPPOAuth2Security — TPP client credential authorisation flow with the ASPSP

Paths & Operations 5

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 1 GET, 2 POST, 1 PUT. They span 2 resource areas: Event Subscriptions, Events. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Event Subscriptions 4

Event Subscriptions

PUT
/event-subscriptions/{eventSubscriptionId}
Change Event Subscription
ChangeEventSubscriptionsEventSubscriptionId 6 params body → 500405
DELETE
/event-subscriptions/{eventSubscriptionId}
Delete Event Subscription
DeleteEventSubscriptionsEventSubscriptionId 5 params → 400401500204403404405406
GET
/event-subscriptions
Get Event Subscription
GetEventSubscriptions 4 params → 200400401500403404405406
POST
/event-subscriptions
Create Event Subscription
CreateEventSubscriptions 5 params body → 201400401500403404415405
Events 1

Events

POST
/events
Create Events
CreateEvents 4 params body → 200201400401500403404415

Schemas 12

The contract defines 12 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Links (5 properties), OBEventPolling1 (4 properties), OBErrorResponse1 (4 properties), OBError1 (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Meta
object
Meta Data relevant to the payload
3 properties
OBEventPollingResponse1
object
2 properties 2 required
Version
string
Version for the event notification.
OBErrorResponse1
object
An array of detail error codes, and messages, and URLs to documentation to help remediation.
4 properties 1 required
OBEventPolling1
object
4 properties
OBExternalStatusReason1Code
string
Low level textual error code, for all enum values see ExternalReturnReason1Code here - https://github.com/OpenBankingUK/ExternalInteralCodeSets/
OBEventSubscription1
object
1 property 1 required
Links
object
Links relevant to the payload
5 properties 1 required
OBEventSubscriptionsResponse1
object
3 properties 1 required
ISODateTime
string
All dates in the JSON payloads are represented in ISO 8601 date-time format. All date-time fields in responses must include the timezone. An example is below:…
OBError1
object
4 properties 1 required
OBEventSubscriptionResponse1
object
3 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

barclays-event-notification-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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