---
title: "GET /v2/profile-media/{user_id}/{kind}/{asset}"
method: GET
path: "/v2/profile-media/{user_id}/{kind}/{asset}"
tags: ["Social"]
---

# GET /v2/profile-media/{user_id}/{kind}/{asset}

`GET /v2/profile-media/{user_id}/{kind}/{asset}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.arbital.xyz` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.arbital.xyz/v2/profile-media/{user_id}/{kind}/{asset}`
- Auth: none declared

Reads an approved profile image through the backend-owned immutable media URL. Unapproved, superseded, unsafe, cover, and post assets are indistinguishable from missing assets.

## Path parameters

- `user_id` string, uuid, required
- `kind` 'profile', required
- `asset` string, required

## Response `200`

Approved immutable profile image

## Other responses

- `404`: Stable machine-readable problem. HTTP 429 and 503 responses include retry and cache-validity fields plus Retry-After and X-Request-ID headers.
- `503`: Stable machine-readable problem. HTTP 429 and 503 responses include retry and cache-validity fields plus Retry-After and X-Request-ID headers.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/arbital/apis/arbital-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/arbital/apis/arbital-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/arbital/apis/arbital-api/revisions/bb0185edf43a?raw)