---
title: "Get a tool"
method: GET
path: "/tools/{tool_type}"
---

# Get a tool

`GET /tools/{tool_type}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.bannerbear.com/v5`
- URL: `https://api.bannerbear.com/v5/tools/{tool_type}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

One media tool, with the JSON Schema of its inputs.

## Path parameters

- `tool_type` string, required

## Response `200`

Tool details

- object
  - `tool` string: Tool slug, for POST /tools/{tool_type}
  - `label` string
  - `description` string
  - `keywords` string[]
  - `filters` string[]
  - `ai` boolean: True when the tool calls an AI provider
  - `generative` boolean: True when the tool makes new content with AI, such as an image, a video, speech or text
  - `output_kind` string
  - `outputs` string[]: The keys of the job's `outputs` once it completes
  - `extra_credit_cost` integer: API credits on top of the 1 that every tool run costs
  - `input_schema` object: JSON Schema of the tool's inputs, the body of POST /tools/{tool_type}

## Other responses

- `404`: Unknown tool

## Changes

- **2026-11-10** `24e6335e0a47`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/bannerbear/apis/bannerbear-v5-api/changes/tools/:tool_type/get.md)

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