Execute SQL against a Turso Cloud database over raw HTTP (/v2/pipeline) without using an SDK
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Documented steps
Get the database base URL: https://[databaseName]-[organizationSlug].turso.io (from `turso db show <db> --http-url`).
Mint a data-plane auth token: `turso db tokens create <db>` (add `-r/--read-only` for read-only).
POST to <base-url>/v2/pipeline with headers `Authorization: Bearer <authToken>` and `Content-Type: application/json` (https://docs.turso.tech/sdk/http/quickstart).
Body is a batch of typed requests: {"requests":[{"type":"execute","stmt":{"sql":"SELECT * FROM users"}},{"type":"close"}]}.
Bind parameters instead of interpolating: "args":[{"type":"integer","value":"1"}] for positional, or named_args for named. Valid arg types are null, integer, float, text, blob.
Encode every scalar value as a JSON STRING ("value":"1", not 1) — the protocol does this deliberately to avoid float/int64 precision loss.
Read results from the response's results array; each execute returns cols, rows and affected_row_count.
Include {"type":"close"} as the last request for one-shot calls so the server tears down the stream; omit it and keep the returned `baton` if you intend to issue follow-up requests on the same stream.
For anything beyond simple calls, prefer an SDK (@tursodatabase/serverless, libsql) rather than hand-rolling the protocol.
Known gotchas
The endpoint is /v2/pipeline on the DATABASE host, not on api.turso.tech. Sending SQL to api.turso.tech is the most common wiring mistake.
Passing a raw JSON number as an arg value is rejected — values must be strings inside the typed arg object.
Responses carry a `baton` for stream continuation; if you drop it and do not send `close`, you leak server-side streams.
This is the Hrana-over-HTTP v2 protocol; the underlying spec lives in the libSQL repo and can change ahead of the docs page.
A 401 here almost always means you used a Platform API token rather than a database auth token.
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