History
Get document revisions and transactions
The History API lets you request document revisions by a timestamp or a revision ID. To read transactions for a document, you must have read access to the document’s current version. If your document is in a private dataset you must be authenticated.
GET /v2025-02-19/data/history/:dataset/documents/:documentId
Returns a document as it was at a point in the past as JSON. This endpoint behaves exactly same as the doc endpoint. It applies current access control for every revision of the document.
Gotcha
Current Access Control means if you're able to access the document today, you'll be able to access all the previous revisions of the document.
revision string
Revision ID (_rev) to fetch.
timedatetime
Time for which the document is fetched.
lastRevisionboolean
Mutually exclusive with time and revision. Returns the current data for an existing document, or the last state before deletion for a deleted document. Added in
v2025-02-19.
As these parameters refer to specific points in the history, only one of them can be specified at a time.
Request with timestamp:
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" "https://exx11uqh.api.sanity.io/v2021-06-07/data/history/test/documents/b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06?time=2019-05-28T17:18:39Z"
This will return a JSON payload:
{
"documents": [
{
"_createdAt": "2019-03-25T15:16:09Z",
"_id": "b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06",
"_rev": "mXlLqCPElh7uu0wm84cjks",
"_type": "author",
"_updatedAt": "2019-05-28T17:16:43Z",
"name": "dsfasdflol"
}
]
}Gotcha
The timestamp is matched against the time of the transaction in the backend, and not the timestamps in the document. In most cases these will align, but if you have imported documents with the timestamps already set, there will be a discrepancy.
Request with revision id:
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" "https://exx11uqh.api.sanity.io/v2021-06-07/data/history/test/documents/b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06?revision=mXlLqCPElh7uu0wm84cjks"
This will return a JSON payload:
{
"documents": [
{
"_createdAt": "2019-03-25T15:16:09Z",
"_id": "b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06",
"_rev": "mXlLqCPElh7uu0wm84cjks",
"_type": "author",
"_updatedAt": "2019-05-28T17:16:43Z",
"name": "dsfasdflol"
}
]
}GET /v2021-06-07/data/history/:dataset/transactions/:documentIds
Returns an NDJSON (Newline Delimited JSON) containing transactions for the given document ids.
URL parameter documentIds are document ids separated by comma.
excludeContentboolean
Exclude the document contents from the responses.
fromTimedatetime
Time from which the transactions are fetched.
toTimedatetime
Time until the transactions are fetched.
fromTransactionstring
Transaction ID (Or, Revision ID) from which the transactions are fetched.
toTransactionstring
Transaction ID (Or, Revision ID) until the transactions are fetched.
authorsstring
Comma separated list of authors to filter the transactions by.
reverseboolean
Return transactions in reverse order.
limitinteger
Limit the number of returned transactions.
effectFormat"mendoza"
"mendoza": Super efficient format for expressing differences between JSON documents. See blog
includeIdentifiedDocumentsOnlyboolean
Only include the documents that are part of the document ids list
Gotcha
You are required to set excludeContent as true for now.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" "https://exx11uqh.api.sanity.io/v2021-06-07/data/history/test/transactions/b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06?excludeContent=true"
This outputs a NDJSON payload:
{"id":"mXlLqCPElh7uu0wm84cjks","timestamp":"2019-05-28T17:16:43.151928Z","author":"pDYrmFKn7","mutations":[{"create":{"_id":"b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","_rev":"mXlLqCPElh7uu0wm84cjks"}},{"delete":{"id":"drafts.b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","purge":false}}],"documentIDs":["b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","drafts.b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06"]}
{"id":"mXlLqCPElh7uu0wm84ckxR","timestamp":"2019-05-28T17:18:39.223739Z","author":"pDYrmFKn7","mutations":[{"patch":{"id":"b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","ifRevisionID":"mXlLqCPElh7uu0wm84cjks"}},{"createOrReplace":{"_id":"b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","_rev":"mXlLqCPElh7uu0wm84cjks"}},{"delete":{"id":"drafts.b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","purge":false}}],"documentIDs":["b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","drafts.b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06"]}
{"id":"3wHuOovAQT3V1vksbN2QtG","timestamp":"2019-06-11T13:06:02.028674Z","author":"psb9Tdtwv","mutations":[{"delete":{"id":"b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","purge":false}},{"delete":{"id":"drafts.b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06","purge":false}}],"documentIDs":["b8b866a5-3546-47de-a15d-de149d058b06"]}