---
title: "Get an Asset"
method: GET
path: "/v2/assets/{id}"
tags: ["Assets"]
---

# Get an Asset

`GET /v2/assets/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.codepen.io`
- URL: `https://api.codepen.io/v2/assets/{id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

One Asset, with a text Asset's `content`.

## Response `200`

The Asset with its `content`.

- AssetWithContent
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `filename` string, required
  - `id` string, required
  - `is_binary` boolean, required: Text Assets are those with a text extension: SVG, HTML/HAML/Pug/Slim/Markdown, CSS/Sass/SCSS/Less/Stylus, JS/JSX/TS/TSX/CoffeeScript/JSON/source maps, Vue, GLSL and plain text. Everything else is binary.
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
  - `url` string, uri, required
  - `content` string, nullable, required: A text Asset's content; null for a binary one, whose bytes are served at `url`.

## Other responses

- `401`: `UNAUTHENTICATED`: a missing or invalid key, a deleted owner, or a Team key for a Team that is not PRO.
- `404`: `NOT_FOUND`: no such item, or one that is not the key owner's, public or not. A path that is not an endpoint at all answers `404` with the v1 body `{ "error": "not found" }` instead.
- `429`: `RATE_LIMITED`: the owner exceeded the plan's requests in an hour, its reads today, or today's allowance of Pen or Collection creates. No `Retry-After` or rate-limit headers are sent; the body carries `retry_after_seconds`, `limit` and `reset_at`.
- `500`: `INTERNAL`: unexpected, and reported; the message is generic.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/codepen/apis/codepen-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/codepen/apis/codepen-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/codepen/apis/codepen-api/revisions/108fe91e3ef5?raw)