---
title: "Get Topic"
method: GET
path: "/kafka/v3/clusters/{cluster_id}/topics/{topic_name}"
tags: ["Topic (v3)"]
---

# Get Topic

`GET /kafka/v3/clusters/{cluster_id}/topics/{topic_name}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://pkc-00000.region.provider.confluent.cloud`
- URL: `https://pkc-00000.region.provider.confluent.cloud/kafka/v3/clusters/{cluster_id}/topics/{topic_name}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - OAuth 2
    - Client credentials
    - Token URL: `https://api.confluent.cloud/sts/v1/oauth2/token`

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Return the topic with the given `topic_name`.

## Query parameters

- `include_authorized_operations` boolean

## Response `200`

The topic.

- TopicData
  - `kind` string, required
  - `metadata` ResourceMetadata, required
    - `self` string, required
    - `resource_name` string, nullable
  - `cluster_id` string, required
  - `topic_name` string, required
  - `is_internal` boolean, required
  - `replication_factor` integer, required
  - `partitions_count` integer, required
  - `partitions` Relationship, required
    - `related` string, required
  - `configs` Relationship, required
    - `related` string, required
  - `partition_reassignments` Relationship, required
    - `related` string, required
  - `authorized_operations` string[]

## Other responses

- `400`: Indicates a bad request error. It could be caused by an unexpected request body format or other forms of request validation failure.
- `401`: Indicates a client authentication error. Kafka authentication failures will contain error code 40101 in the response body.
- `403`: Indicates a client authorization error. Kafka authorization failures will contain error code 40301 in the response body.
- `404`: Indicates attempted access to an unreachable or non-existing resource like e.g. an unknown topic or partition. GET requests to endpoints not allowed in the accesslists will also result in this response.
- `429`: Indicates that a rate limit threshold has been reached, and the client should retry again later.
- `5XX`: A server-side problem that might not be addressable from the client side. Retriable Kafka errors will contain error code 50003 in the response body.

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