# Get a request from the request log

Requests

GET `/v1/requests/{id}`

One request of the request log by its ID (meta.request_id of its answer). Free.

**Auth:** an API key with the `account:read` scope, or the dashboard session.

**Test mode:** A test key sees test requests only; a live key and the dashboard see both.

## Example

cURL:

```shell
curl 'https://staging.socialtap.dev/v1/requests/<id>' \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"
```

## Authorizations

`x-api-key`stringheaderrequired

Your API key, with the `account:read` scope. [Authentication](https://staging.socialtap.dev/docs/authentication/index.md)

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` required | `string` | Request ID (meta.request_id, the request-id header). | — |

## Response

### 200

Get a request from the request log

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `data` | `object` |  |
| `data.api_key_id` | `string` | The key that made it (key_…). |
| `data.cached` | `boolean` | true when served from the cache. |
| `data.client_request_id` | `string` or `null` | The client-request-id header it was sent with; null when none. |
| `data.created_at` | `string` (date-time) | When it was made, RFC 3339 UTC (milliseconds). |
| `data.credits_charged` | `integer` | Credits charged (0: failures, cache hits and test requests are free). |
| `data.endpoint` | `string` | Endpoint ID (youtube.transcript). |
| `data.http_status` | `integer` | The answer's HTTP status. |
| `data.id` | `string` | The request ID: meta.request_id of its answer and its request-id header. |
| `data.latency_ms` | `integer` | Time from receiving the request to answering it, in milliseconds. |
| `data.mode` | `string` | live, or test (recorded answers, free).<br>One of `live`, `test` |
| `data.object` | `string` | Always request.<br>One of `request` |
| `data.outcome` | `string` | ok, or the error code it answered. |
| `data.params` | `object` | The query params as sent (at most 32; a value longer than 2048 characters is cut). Run the request again with them. |
| `data.params_truncated` | `boolean` | true when a param or a value was cut: params is not the whole request. |
| `data.surface` | `string` | How it reached the API: rest (an HTTP request), mcp (an MCP tool call) or job (a request of a job). New values may be added. |
| `meta` | `object` | The shared route meta (see the API reference introduction). |

### 400

400 Bad Request.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `invalid_input` | 400 | No | The request parameters are missing or malformed, or the URL is not a supported link for this endpoint. | Fix the parameter named in param (the message says how); for a link of the wrong kind, call the endpoint the message names. |

### 401

401 Unauthorized.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `unauthorized` | 401 | No | The x-api-key header is missing, unknown or revoked (or, on the dashboard's routes, the session cookie is missing or expired). | Send a valid API key in the x-api-key header; without one, get a key at details.signup_url (AI agents: POST details.agent_signup_url). |

### 403

403 Forbidden.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `forbidden` | 403 | No | The API key is valid but may not make this request: its account is suspended, its scopes do not include the route, it is waiting for its owner's email confirmation, it is past its expiry, or the request came from an IP its allowlist does not include; or the request used a rotated key's previous secret (or one no longer current) for something that needs the admin scope. A running job stops the same way when its account is suspended or the key that created it is revoked or expires. It is about the key, never the item (a private item is private_or_unavailable, also 403): branch on the code. | Do what details.reason says: if suspended, contact [support](https://staging.socialtap.dev/docs/index.md); otherwise use a key whose scopes cover the route (details.required_scope) or the key's new secret after a rotation, have the owner confirm the emailed link, create a new key, or call from an allowed IP. |

### 404

404 Not Found.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `not_found` | 404 | No | The item does not exist or was deleted. | Check the URL or ID; do not retry. |

### 429

429 Too Many Requests.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `rate_limited` | 429 | Yes, later | The account exceeded its runaway-protection ceiling: plans do not limit request rate, but a high per-account safety ceiling stops broken client loops. Support raises it on request. Without an API key (signup, the MCP server's tool listing and find_endpoint), requests are limited per IP address instead. | Wait for the number of seconds in the retry-after header, then retry; ask [support](https://staging.socialtap.dev/docs/index.md) to raise the ceiling if your sustained traffic needs more (calls without an API key: use one). |

## Test mode

A test key sees test requests only; a live key and the dashboard see both.

operationId `requests.get`

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