Poll the WorkOS Events API with a durable cursor to sync data reliably and replay events missed during downtime
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Authenticate every call with 'Authorization: Bearer <WORKOS_API_KEY>'.
First run: GET https://api.workos.com/events?range_start=<ISO8601>&limit=100 to fetch the earliest window you care about. limit accepts 1-100 and defaults to 10. Narrow with events[]=<event_type> and/or organization_id=<org_id>.
Read list_metadata.after from the response and store it durably in your database alongside the last processed event id.
On every subsequent poll, GET /events?after=<stored_cursor>&limit=100 and process data[] in order.
Persist the new list_metadata.after cursor only AFTER the batch is fully processed, so a mid-batch crash resumes correctly instead of skipping events.
Run the poller in a dedicated worker separate from request handling, requesting the next page only once the current batch completes.
To recover from downtime, resume from the stored cursor, or rewind by calling GET /events?range_start=<downtime_start_ISO8601> to reprocess a window.
Compare each event's timestamp against your stored state before applying it, so replayed older events do not clobber newer data.
Respect the retention limits: events are available for up to 90 days, and a single request may span at most a 30-day range. For longer catch-ups, loop over consecutive 30-day windows.
Use order=asc for cursor-consistent forward processing; the endpoint defaults to desc.
Run the Events API poller as a backstop alongside webhooks — webhooks give latency, polling gives guaranteed catch-up.
Events older than 90 days are not retrievable at all. The Events API is not an archive, so an outage longer than that window creates a permanent gap unless you keep your own log.
A single request can only span a 30-day range, so catching up after a long outage requires looping over multiple windows rather than one wide range_start.
WorkOS does not track your consumer position — you must persist list_metadata.after yourself. Losing the cursor forces a range_start rewind and full reprocessing.
Replayed events can be redelivered, so every downstream write must be idempotent and timestamp-aware or a replay will overwrite newer state with stale data.
The endpoint defaults to limit=10 and order=desc. Forgetting to set limit=100 and an ascending order silently makes a sync loop slow and misordered — this is the most common cause of a poller that never catches up.
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