ABB Robotics

ABB Robot Web Services Subscriptions

WebSocket-based subscription service that pushes change events for subscribed RWS resources (IO signals, RAPID symbols, controller state, execution state, e-log, motion system). Clients open a subscription group via POST /subscription and then upgrade to a WebSocket connection to receive notifications. Critical for low-latency controller monitoring, HMIs, and supervisory applications.

ABB Robot Web Services Subscriptions is one of 4 APIs that ABB Robotics publishes on the APIs.io network.

Tagged areas include Robotics, WebSockets, Events, Subscriptions, and Real-Time. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://developercenter.robotstudio.com/api/rwsApi/

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: abb-robotics:robot-web-services-subscriptions
name: ABB Robot Web Services Subscriptions
description: WebSocket-based subscription service that pushes change events for subscribed RWS resources
  (IO signals, RAPID symbols, controller state, execution state, e-log, motion system). Clients open a
  subscription group via POST /subscription and then upgrade to a WebSocket connection to receive notifications.
  Critical for low-latency controller monitoring, HMIs, and supervisory applications.
humanURL: https://developercenter.robotstudio.com/api/rwsApi/
tags:
- Robotics
- WebSockets
- Events
- Subscriptions
- Real-Time
properties:
- url: https://developercenter.robotstudio.com/api/rwsApi/
  type: Documentation