---
title: "Get artifact by global ID"
method: GET
path: "/ids/globalIds/{globalId}"
tags: ["Artifacts"]
---

# Get artifact by global ID

`GET /ids/globalIds/{globalId}`

## Request

- The document declares no server URL.
- Auth: none declared

Gets the content for an artifact version in the registry using its globally unique
identifier.

This operation may fail for one of the following reasons:

* No artifact version with this `globalId` exists (HTTP error `404`)
* A server error occurred (HTTP error `500`)

## Query parameters

- `references` 'PRESERVE' | 'DEREFERENCE' | 'REWRITE': How to handle references when retrieving content. References can either be left unchanged (`PRESERVE`), re-written so they are valid in the context of the registry (`REWRITE`), or fully dereferenced such that all externally referenced content is internalized (`DEREFERENCE`).
- `returnArtifactType` boolean

## Response `200`

The content of one version of one artifact.

- string, binary

## Other responses

- `401`: Common response for all operations that can return a `401` error indicating authentication is required.
- `403`: Common response for all operations that can return a `403` error indicating the user is authenticated but not authorized.
- `404`: Common response for all operations that can return a `404` error.
- `500`: Common response for all operations that can fail with an unexpected server error.

## Changes

- **2026-10-31** `ff9684af2aad`: 20 info
  - added the optional property `ruleViolation/causes/items/code` to the response with the `401` status
  - added the optional property `ruleViolation/causes/items/code` to the response with the `403` status
  - added the optional property `ruleViolation/causes/items/code` to the response with the `404` status
  - added the optional property `ruleViolation/causes/items/code` to the response with the `500` status
  - …16 more
- **2026-10-29** `f17f5df4e79c`: 4 info
  - added the optional property `ruleViolation` to the response with the `401` status
  - added the optional property `ruleViolation` to the response with the `403` status
  - added the optional property `ruleViolation` to the response with the `404` status
  - added the optional property `ruleViolation` to the response with the `500` status
- **2025-12-16** `440db8997574`: 2 info
  - added the non-success response with the status `401`
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2024-11-05** `71eb4c6b7d72`: 1 info
  - added the new optional `query` request parameter `returnArtifactType`
- …earlier changes not shown

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/apicurio/apis/apicurio-registry-api-v3/changes/ids/globalIds/:globalId/get.md)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/apicurio/apis/apicurio-registry-api-v3.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/apicurio/apis/apicurio-registry-api-v3/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/apicurio/apis/apicurio-registry-api-v3/revisions/ff9684af2aad?raw)