Activity Feeds
Our enterprise-ready activity feed APIs are used by hundreds of large companies so they can grow without worrying about the scalability, maintenance and reliability of a complicated news feed infrastructure.
Enterprise Scalability
Teams trust the Stream technology to scale world-wide, regardless of load without going down and impacting their app performace or usability.
API Infrastructure
Our 9ms avg API response time infrastructure is built with GO, RocksDB and Raft. Confidently build any kind of Activity Feed without the scalability headaches.
Trusted for Excellence
The Stream service is trusted by hundreds of teams and more than a billion end-users to reliably scale, regardless of demand.
Feature Complete
Feed ranking, aggregation, reactions, URL enrichment, follows/unfollows and real-time updates give users everything they expect from a sophisticated activity feed experience.
Personalization
Tailor feeds, follow suggestions and recommendations through our customized feed edgerank to improve discovery and engagement.
Docs and SDKs
Always up-to-date Docs assist your integrations with our API along with our powerful and feature-rich SDKs and Components.
"Stream simplifies processing billions of activities into a simple API for input and output, with performance that would take our team months, if not years, to learn and optimize."
Luke Chesser
CPO
"Building a custom in-house infrastructure to power feeds, accompanied with ranking (weights), speed, reliability, and something cost-effective is a true challenge, and we thank Stream for everything that they do"
Tim Specht
CTO
Unmatched Infrastructure Performance for Any Size App
Our news feed API was built by developers, for developers. Leverage the API or integrate our libraries and components. We solve the hard scalability and integration problems, with flexible front-end components so you can do more of what you love.
We power experiences for over a billion users with our Feeds API & Chat API
Stream Activity Feed Features
Ship complete social experiences with all the features your users expect.
Likes, Comments, Reactions
Elevate engagement with support for shares, comments, reactions and their counts.
Aggregation
Group similar activities automatically together based on your own custom rules.
URL Enrichment
Easily show image, text and video previews of the URLs that users are sending.
Hashtags and @mentions
Enhance discovery and encourage new conversations across an entire app.
Built-in Realtime
Provide instant feedback to users when the feed content changes or there are new posts to see.
Custom Ranking
Configure your own ranking methods to any given feed group; i.e. show popular content first.
- Flat feeds
- Aggregated feeds
- Notification feeds
- Personalized feeds
- Follow feeds
- Unfollows
- Webhooks
- Discovery and suggestions
- Custom ranking
- Moderation
- Spam & profanity protection
- User roles
- @mentions
- #hashtags
- Likes and comments
- Edgerank
- Analytics
- Import and export data
- Batch methods
- Custom fields
- Pagination
- Read feed followers
- Realtime server-side
- Realtime web & mobile
- Flexible discard rules
- Reactions
- Child Reactions
- Collections
- Enrichment
- Users
- Engagement analytics
- Media attachments & resizing
- Fast response times (avg 5ms)
- Dedicated stack is available
- URL scraping
- Fully customizable
- Unlimited message retention
- Excellent performance & reliability
- Enterprise SLA
- Phone support and SAML
"Stream is working great. We had so many limitations to what we wanted to do with Codepen before we found Stream. Stream unlocked fundamental activities that make Codepen what it is today"
Chris Coyier
CO-Funder
Reliability with Unparalleled Scalability
Rapidly deploy scalable activity feeds with an industry-leading 99.999% uptime SLA guarantee. Stream powered activity and notification feeds combined with our powerful personalization enables teams to build engaging feed experiences.
- Launch without worrying about the scalability of a general purpose database.
- Developer focused: Actively maintained SDKs & documentation.
- 99.99% uptime track record. 24/7 phone support and SLA on Enterprise plans.
- Zero Maintenance: focus on what makes your app unique.
Integrating Stream was significantly more affordable than building, maintaining and hosting an in-house solution for Bandsintown.
Dubsmash scales its social app to an infinite number of users while having the ability to make real-time tweaks to sorting and weighting, time decay, etc.
Betabrand added common social network features to become the social leader of fashion by driving discussion through the use of social feeds.
