Debugging a subscription that is not working
status=failed. The status code and your own response body are both here.
Documentation / Webhooks & account
/v1/webhooks/deliveries
What we sent, when, and whether it landed.
Send your key in the X-API-Key header, or as
?key= if your tool cannot set one. A date outside your plan's window returns
403 outside_window naming the window, never an empty array.
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| status | query | string | no | delivered, failed or pending. Omit for all. |
| event | query | string | no | Restrict to one event type. |
| limit | query | integer | no | 1 to 200. Defaults to 50. |
| cursor | query | string | no | Opaque. Pass next_cursor from the previous response. |
curl https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/webhooks/deliveries \ -H "X-API-Key: $AHR_KEY"
$ch = curl_init('https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/webhooks/deliveries'); curl_setopt_array($ch, [ CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['X-API-Key: ' . getenv('AHR_KEY')], ]); $data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true)['data'];
const res = await fetch( 'https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/webhooks/deliveries', { headers: { 'X-API-Key': process.env.AHR_KEY } } ); const { meta, data } = await res.json();
import os, requests r = requests.get( "https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/webhooks/deliveries", headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["AHR_KEY"]}, ).json()
curl https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/webhooks/deliveries?key=$AHR_KEY
$url = 'https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/webhooks/deliveries' . '?key=$AHR_KEY'; $data = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true)['data'];
const res = await fetch( 'https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/webhooks/deliveries?key=$AHR_KEY' ); const { meta, data } = await res.json();
import os, requests r = requests.get( "https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/webhooks/deliveries?key=$AHR_KEY", ).json()
{ "meta": { "request_id": "45d70f02f5f176a3", "data_as_of": "2026-09-12T05:10:27+00:00", "plan": "analyst", "window": "2017 → upcoming", "count": 0 }, "data": { "subscriptions": [ { "url": "https://example.com/hooks/racing", "events": [ "result.received" ], "active": true, "failures": 0, "last_ok_at": null } ], "deliveries": [], "available_events": { "result.received": "A race result has landed.", "race.status_changed": "A race moved between scheduled, off, and weighed in.", "card.updated": "A racecard changed after publication.", "non_runner.declared": "A declared runner was withdrawn." } } }
A real response from /v1/webhooks/deliveries,
captured by calling the live API rather than written by hand.
Each field is described once and rendered on every endpoint that returns it, so the wording cannot drift between pages.
| Field | Type | What it is |
|---|
| Code | Status | When |
|---|---|---|
| unauthorized | 401 | No key, or one we do not recognise. Check the header name and that the key has not been rotated from your account page. |
| invalid_param | 422 | A date that is not YYYY-MM-DD, a by= dimension we do not have, or a cursor that did not come from us. The message names the parameter. |
| rate_limited | 429 | Past your per-minute rate. Retry-After is set, and X-RateLimit-Remaining tells you where you stand on every successful response too. |
| server_error | 500 | Ours, not yours. Every response carries a request_id; quote it and we can find the exact request. |
A real request from your browser straight to
api.apihorseracing.com with
your own key. Nothing is proxied and nothing is logged by this page.
Remembered in this browser so you do not paste it on every page. Forget it
What we sent, when, how long it took, what your endpoint returned and how many attempts it needed.
It exists because a webhook that fails silently is worse than no webhook. If your endpoint was down for an hour, this is where you find out which deliveries were lost, rather than discovering a gap in your data a week later and not knowing why.
The response body from your endpoint is kept, truncated, for failed deliveries. A five hundred with your own stack trace in it is usually the fastest possible answer to why the delivery failed.
status=failed. The status code and your own response body are both here.
Take the race identifiers from the failed deliveries and fetch them directly. We do not replay, so this is the recovery path.
status=delivered with a small limit tells you the last few landed.
Deliveries are kept for thirty days. Anything older has been pruned.