Documentation

Stream Documentation

Everything you need to add chat, video, feeds and moderation to your app. Pick a product to get started, or jump straight to a platform topic.

Products

Chat Messaging

In-app messaging with channels, threads, reactions and offline support. UI kits and API clients for every major platform.

Quickstart
Video and Audio

Video calling, audio rooms and livestreaming on Stream's global edge network.

Quickstart
Activity Feeds

Social activity feeds with follows, comments, reactions and notifications.

Quickstart
Moderation

AI and rule-based moderation for text, images and video, with review queues built in.

Quickstart

Tools

CLI
Manage apps, users and data from your terminal, or hand the CLI to an AI agent.
Agent Skills
Install skills that teach coding agents like Claude Code how to build with Stream's SDKs.

Platform

Account-level topics that work the same way across every Stream product.

Start here
What the platform layer covers and the backend SDKs that call it.
Identity and access
Tokens, users, roles and the boundaries between tenants.
Events and notifications
Webhook callbacks to your server and push notifications to devices.
Using the API
Rate limits, query syntax, errors and the mechanics every request shares.

SDKs and platforms

Every SDK Stream ships, from UI kits to server-side libraries.

Moderation

Server Side SDKs
NodePythonRubyPHPJava.NETGoREST