GET/api/v1/changes

Changes since a sequence number, oldest first; each caller sees only the record types it may read

Accepts a credential with any one of: directory:people:read, directory:companies:read.

App
People & Companies
Contract
People & Companies API 1.5.0
Lifecycle
preview
Runtime
restricted
Operation ID
getChanges
Canonical origin
https://directory.runonvision.com

Purpose and use cases

Changes since a sequence number, oldest first; each caller sees only the record types it may read

The owning App is Vision People & Companies. Directory owns these facts, its workspace authorization, and its change feed. Apps store a record's id and keep their own data; app-specific fields go in namespaced extensions.

Request

GET https://directory.runonvision.com/api/v1/changes

Authentication and authorization

Send a Vision-issued bearer token for the exact App audience. The token must include the directory entitlement and satisfy the directory workspace required binding.

  • Required scope: directory:people:read
  • Required scope: directory:companies:read

Human roles are not declared in OpenAPI. Record-level and business permission checks remain the owning App's authority.

Headers

  • Authorization: Bearer <access-token> — required.
  • Accept: application/json — recommended where a JSON response is declared.

Undeclared tracing, idempotency, conditional-request, and version headers are not assumed on this page.

Path and query parameters

NameLocationTypeRulesDescription
sincequeryintegeroptional; default 0; minimum 0Not described in the contract.
limitqueryintegeroptional; default 100; minimum 1; maximum 500Not described in the contract.

Request body

This operation declares no request body.

Runnable examples

cURL
curl 'https://directory.runonvision.com/api/v1/changes' \
  --request GET \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer ${ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  --header 'accept: application/json'
JavaScript (server-side)
const response = await fetch('https://directory.runonvision.com/api/v1/changes', {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    authorization: `Bearer ${ACCESS_TOKEN}`,
    accept: 'application/json',
  },
}

if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Vision API ${response.status}`)
const result = await response.json()
Python 3 standard library
import json
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

request = urllib.request.Request(
    'https://directory.runonvision.com/api/v1/changes',
    data=None,
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>"
},
    method='GET',
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=30) as response:
    result = json.load(response)

The current TypeScript reference client covers Platform token exchange and core reads. No native SDK helper is declared for this operation; use the HTTP contract directly and follow the SDK guidance.

Responses

StatusMeaningSchema
200OKobject
400Some details are missing or not validobject
401No credential, or not a valid oneobject
403Not allowed (also returned for an unknown workspace)object
500An unexpected defect (code internal_error); not retryable, report the requestIdobject
503The database is temporarily unavailable (code dependency_unavailable); retry with backoffobject

Success response schema

FieldTypeRulesDescription
schemaVersion"vision-directory-changes.v1"optionalNot described in the contract.
itemsarrayoptionalNot described in the contract.
nextSinceintegeroptionalNot described in the contract.
hasMorebooleanoptionalNot described in the contract.
200 illustrative response
{
  "schemaVersion": "vision-directory-changes.v1",
  "items": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "person.created",
      "entityType": "person",
      "entityId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
      "occurredAt": "2026-08-21T18:00:00Z",
      "actorSubject": "<actorSubject>",
      "actingFor": "<actingFor>",
      "detail": {}
    }
  ],
  "nextSince": 1,
  "hasMore": true
}

Errors and troubleshooting

Error bodies and codes are shown only where the approved contract declares them. Use status, the declared error schema, and any correlation identifier returned by the App; do not infer that two Apps share one envelope.

  • 400 — Some details are missing or not valid
  • 401 — No credential, or not a valid one
  • 403 — Not allowed (also returned for an unknown workspace)
  • 500 — An unexpected defect (code internal_error); not retryable, report the requestId
  • 503 — The database is temporarily unavailable (code dependency_unavailable); retry with backoff

Collection behavior

Pagination: declared through the parameters above. Filtering/search: not declared. Sorting: not declared.

Cursor lifetime, cursor binding, stable ordering, maximum traversal, and unknown-filter behavior are not assumed unless stated by a parameter description or schema constraint above.

Operational behavior

  • Rate limit: No operation-specific limit or 429 response is declared.
  • Retry: Retry only when the documented error model or response headers authorize it. Timeout and backoff values are not declared by this operation.
  • Idempotency: No idempotency header or replay window is declared.
  • Concurrency: No ETag, If-Match, or optimistic-version header is declared.

Security and privacy

  • Keep client credentials and bearer tokens on trusted servers.
  • Send only to the exact approved HTTPS origin and audience.
  • Treat response data according to the owning App's classification and retention policy; the OpenAPI contract does not itself grant data access.
  • Do not log credentials, tokens, complete private payloads, or secrets.

Edge cases and known documentation gaps

  • One or more parameters have no field-level description.
  • Business roles, timeout, retry budget, rate value, idempotency window, and concurrency behavior are absent unless explicitly stated above.
  • GET /api/v1/duplicates — Records that already use an email or phone, or companies with the same name or website domain (for Import previews); names only record types the caller may read. Likely matches: nothing is merged

Contract history and evidence