---
title: "Get latest answer of asked question"
method: GET
path: "/v1/ask/questions/{question_id}/answer"
tags: ["Ask APIs"]
---

# Get latest answer of asked question

`GET /v1/ask/questions/{question_id}/answer`

This API is used to fetch the latest answer of previous submitted question from Miso

A submitted question is put into a job with following stage:

- Initialization
- Parsing and fecthing related content
- Relevance checking
- Summarization

This API will tell you at what stage current question is in.
If answer is fetched and being summerized, it will also return the latest summarization result.

Besides human readable answer, the products used to generate answer are also returned.

## Path parameters

- `question_id` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- PollAnswerResponse
  - `message` string — The status of the API response ('success' or other human readable api status).
  - `data` AnswerData, required
    - `question` string, required — The question given by the user
    - `question_id` string, uuid, required — The UUID of the question for which the latest answer is requested.
    - `parent_question_id` string, uuid — The UUID of the parent question if the current question is a follow-up to a previous question.
    - `answer_stage` string — The status of the answer generating process.
    - `finished` boolean — Whether the answer generating process is finished.
    - `finish_reason` 'not_finished' | 'success' | 'error' | 'forbidden' — The reason why the answer generating process is finished.
    - `answer` string — The latest answer for the given question.
    - `sources` object[] — A list of sources related to the answer.
    - `related_resources` object[] — A list of related resources relevant to the question and answer.
    - `followup_questions` string[] — A list of suggested follow-up questions.
    - `affiliation_products` object[] — A list of suggested affiliation products.
    - `revision` integer — The revision number of the answer response data. Updated answer data has larger revision number, used by the SDK to check data order.

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation Error

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/askmiso/apis/miso-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/askmiso/apis/miso-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-production.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/askmiso/miso-api/revisions/f2fa5ba6025f/schema)