---
title: "Read a file"
method: GET
path: "/v1/sessions/{id}/files"
---

# Read a file

`GET /v1/sessions/{id}/files`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://assemble-vms-api.fly.dev`
- URL: `https://assemble-vms-api.fly.dev/v1/sessions/{id}/files`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Read a regular session file. File operations reject symlink traversal and files over 10 MiB.

## Response `200`

Raw file bytes.

## Other responses

- `default`: Structured API error. HTTP 400 invalid request, 401 authentication, 404 missing resource, 409 conflict, 413 size limit, 429 quota, or 503 unavailable.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/assemble/apis/assemble-vms-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/assemble/apis/assemble-vms-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/assemble/apis/assemble-vms-api/revisions/93f55a2e3de3?raw)