List subscriptions

You can list the subscriptions in a Google Cloud project with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, client library, or Pub/Sub API.

Before you begin

Required roles and permissions

To get the permissions that you need to list subscriptions and manage them, ask your administrator to grant you the Pub/Sub Editor (roles/pubsub.editor) IAM role on your topic or project. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

This predefined role contains the permissions required to list subscriptions and manage them. To see the exact permissions that are required, expand the Required permissions section:

Required permissions

The following permissions are required to list subscriptions and manage them:

  • Pull from a subscription: pubsub.subscriptions.consume
  • Create a subscription: pubsub.subscriptions.create
  • Delete a subscription: pubsub.subscriptions.delete
  • Get a subscription: pubsub.subscriptions.get
  • List a subscription: pubsub.subscriptions.list
  • Update a subscription: pubsub.subscriptions.update
  • Attach a subscription to a topic: pubsub.topics.attachSubscription
  • Get the IAM policy for a subscription: pubsub.subscriptions.getIamPolicy
  • Configure the IAM policy for a subscription: pubsub.subscriptions.setIamPolicy

You might also be able to get these permissions with custom roles or other predefined roles.

List a subscription

You can list the subscriptions in a Google Cloud project with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, client library, or Pub/Sub API.

Console

To list the subscriptions in a project, go to the Subscriptions page.

Go to Subscriptions

Your subscriptions are listed in the table on the page.

gcloud

  1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

    Activate Cloud Shell

    At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

  2. To list the subscriptions in a Google Cloud project, run the gcloud pubsub subscriptions list command:

    gcloud pubsub subscriptions list [--project=PROJECT_ID]

REST

To list subscriptions in a project, use the projects.subscriptions.list method:

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials: gcloud auth application-default print-access-token.

GET https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN

Where:

  • PROJECT_ID is your project ID.

Response:

{
"subscriptions": [
{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/mysubscription1",
  "topic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID",
  "pushConfig": {},
  "ackDeadlineSeconds": 10,
  "retainAckedMessages": true,
  "messageRetentionDuration": "604800s",
  "expirationPolicy": {}
},
{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/mysubscription2",
  "topic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID",
  "pushConfig": {
    "pushEndpoint": "https://PROJECT_ID.appspot.com/myhandler",
    "attributes": {
      "x-goog-version": "v1"
    }
  },
  "ackDeadlineSeconds": 10,
  "retainAckedMessages": true,
  "messageRetentionDuration": "604800s",
  "expirationPolicy": {}
}
]
}

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation. 

namespace pubsub_admin = ::google::cloud::pubsub_admin;
[](pubsub_admin::SubscriptionAdminClient client,
   std::string const& project_id) {
  int count = 0;
  google::pubsub::v1::ListSubscriptionsRequest request;
  request.set_project(google::cloud::Project(project_id).FullName());
  for (auto& subscription : client.ListSubscriptions(request)) {
    if (!subscription) throw std::move(subscription).status();
    std::cout << "Subscription Name: " << subscription->name() << "\n";
    ++count;
  }
  if (count == 0) {
    std::cout << "No subscriptions found in project " << project_id << "\n";
  }
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation. 


using Google.Api.Gax.ResourceNames;
using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class ListSubscriptionsSample
{
    public IEnumerable<Subscription> ListSubscriptions(string projectId)
    {
        SubscriberServiceApiClient subscriber = SubscriberServiceApiClient.Create();
        ProjectName projectName = ProjectName.FromProject(projectId);
        var subscriptions = subscriber.ListSubscriptions(projectName);
        return subscriptions;
    }
}

Go

The following sample uses the major version of the Go Pub/Sub client library (v2). If you are still using the v1 library, see the migration guide to v2. To see a list of v1 code samples, see the deprecated code samples.

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub/v2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub/v2/apiv1/pubsubpb"
	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
)

func list(projectID string) ([]*pubsubpb.Subscription, error) {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	var subs []*pubsubpb.Subscription
	req := &pubsubpb.ListSubscriptionsRequest{
		Project: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s", projectID),
	}
	it := client.SubscriptionAdminClient.ListSubscriptions(ctx, req)
	for {
		s, err := it.Next()
		if err == iterator.Done {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Next: %w", err)
		}
		subs = append(subs, s)
	}
	return subs, nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation. 


import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.ProjectName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.Subscription;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ListSubscriptionsInProjectExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";

    listSubscriptionInProjectExample(projectId);
  }

  public static void listSubscriptionInProjectExample(String projectId) throws IOException {
    try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {
      ProjectName projectName = ProjectName.of(projectId);
      for (Subscription subscription :
          subscriptionAdminClient.listSubscriptions(projectName).iterateAll()) {
        System.out.println(subscription.getName());
      }
      System.out.println("Listed all the subscriptions in the project.");
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation. 

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function listSubscriptions() {
  // Lists all subscriptions in the current project
  const [subscriptions] = await pubSubClient.getSubscriptions();
  console.log('Subscriptions:');
  subscriptions.forEach(subscription => console.log(subscription.name));
}

Node.ts

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation. 

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
import {PubSub, Subscription} from '@google-cloud/pubsub';

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function listSubscriptions() {
  // Lists all subscriptions in the current project
  const [subscriptions] = await pubSubClient.getSubscriptions();
  console.log('Subscriptions:');
  subscriptions.forEach((subscription: Subscription) =>
    console.log(subscription.name),
  );
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub PHP API reference documentation. 

use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;

/**
 * Lists all Pub/Sub subscriptions.
 *
 * @param string $projectId  The Google project ID.
 */
function list_subscriptions($projectId)
{
    $pubsub = new PubSubClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    foreach ($pubsub->subscriptions() as $subscription) {
        printf('Subscription: %s' . PHP_EOL, $subscription->name());
    }
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation. 

from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"

subscriber = pubsub_v1.SubscriberClient()
project_path = f"projects/{project_id}"

# Wrap the subscriber in a 'with' block to automatically call close() to
# close the underlying gRPC channel when done.
with subscriber:
    for subscription in subscriber.list_subscriptions(
        request={"project": project_path}
    ):
        print(subscription.name)

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation. 


pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

subscriptions = pubsub.list_subscriptions

puts "Subscriptions:"
subscriptions.each do |subscription|
  puts subscription.name
end

List subscriptions to a topic

You can list the subscriptions to a topic with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, or Pub/Sub API.

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Topics page.

    Go to Topics

  2. Select a topic ID to open the Topic details page. The Subscriptions section of the page includes of list of subscriptions to the topic.

gcloud

  1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

    Activate Cloud Shell

    At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

  2. To list the subscriptions in a Google Cloud project, run the gcloud pubsub topics list-subscriptions command:

    gcloud pubsub topics list-subscriptions TOPIC_ID

REST

To list subscriptions in a topic, use the projects.subscriptions.list method:

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials: gcloud auth application-default print-access-token.

GET https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID/subscriptions
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN

Where:

  • PROJECT_ID is your project ID.
  • TOPIC_ID is your topic ID.

Response:

{
"subscriptions": [
"projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/mysubscription1",
"projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/mysubscription2"
]
}

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation. 

namespace pubsub_admin = ::google::cloud::pubsub_admin;
namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub_admin::TopicAdminClient client, std::string const& project_id,
   std::string const& topic_id) {
  auto const topic = pubsub::Topic(project_id, topic_id);
  std::cout << "Subscription list for topic " << topic << ":\n";
  for (auto& name : client.ListTopicSubscriptions(topic.FullName())) {
    if (!name) throw std::move(name).status();
    std::cout << "  " << *name << "\n";
  }
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation. 


using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class ListSubscriptionsInTopicSample
{
    public IEnumerable<string> ListSubscriptionsInTopic(string projectId, string topicId)
    {
        PublisherServiceApiClient publisher = PublisherServiceApiClient.Create();
        TopicName topicName = TopicName.FromProjectTopic(projectId, topicId);
        IEnumerable<string> subscriptions = publisher.ListTopicSubscriptions(topicName);
        return subscriptions;
    }
}

Go

The following sample uses the major version of the Go Pub/Sub client library (v2). If you are still using the v1 library, see the migration guide to v2. To see a list of v1 code samples, see the deprecated code samples.

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub/v2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub/v2/apiv1/pubsubpb"
	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
)

func listSubscriptions(w io.Writer, projectID, topicID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// topicName := "projects/sample-248520/topics/ocr-go-test-topic"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	req := &pubsubpb.ListTopicSubscriptionsRequest{
		Topic: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/topics/%s", projectID, topicID),
	}
	it := client.TopicAdminClient.ListTopicSubscriptions(ctx, req)
	for {
		sub, err := it.Next()
		if err == iterator.Done {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("error listing topic subscriptions: %w", err)
		}
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "got subscription: %s\n", sub)
	}
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation. 


import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.TopicAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.TopicName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ListSubscriptionsInTopicExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String topicId = "your-topic-id";

    listSubscriptionInTopicExample(projectId, topicId);
  }

  public static void listSubscriptionInTopicExample(String projectId, String topicId)
      throws IOException {
    try (TopicAdminClient topicAdminClient = TopicAdminClient.create()) {
      TopicName topicName = TopicName.of(projectId, topicId);
      for (String subscription : topicAdminClient.listTopicSubscriptions(topicName).iterateAll()) {
        System.out.println(subscription);
      }
      System.out.println("Listed all the subscriptions in the topic.");
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation. 

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment this variable before running the sample.
 */
// const topicNameOrId = 'YOUR_TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function listTopicSubscriptions(topicNameOrId) {
  // Lists all subscriptions for the topic
  const [subscriptions] = await pubSubClient
    .topic(topicNameOrId)
    .getSubscriptions();

  console.log(`Subscriptions for ${topicNameOrId}:`);
  subscriptions.forEach(subscription => console.log(subscription.name));
}

Node.ts

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation. 

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment this variable before running the sample.
 */
// const topicNameOrId = 'YOUR_TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
import {PubSub, Subscription} from '@google-cloud/pubsub';

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function listTopicSubscriptions(topicNameOrId: string) {
  // Lists all subscriptions for the topic
  const [subscriptions] = await pubSubClient
    .topic(topicNameOrId)
    .getSubscriptions();

  console.log(`Subscriptions for ${topicNameOrId}:`);
  subscriptions.forEach((subscription: Subscription) =>
    console.log(subscription.name),
  );
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation. 

from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# topic_id = "your-topic-id"

publisher = pubsub_v1.PublisherClient()
topic_path = publisher.topic_path(project_id, topic_id)

response = publisher.list_topic_subscriptions(request={"topic": topic_path})
for subscription in response:
    print(subscription)

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation. 

# topic_id = "your-topic-id"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

topic         = pubsub.topic topic_id
subscriptions = topic.subscriptions

puts "Subscriptions in topic #{topic.name}:"
subscriptions.each do |subscription|
  puts subscription.name
end

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