---
title: "Read one article"
method: GET
path: "/articles/{slug}"
---

# Read one article

`GET /articles/{slug}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://www.expatliving.it/api/v1`
- URL: `https://www.expatliving.it/api/v1/articles/{slug}`
- Auth: none declared

One article's full text as Markdown, its places and datasets, and a ready-made citation. Credit with a link is required for reuse (CC BY 4.0).

## Path parameters

- `slug` string, required

## Response `200`

The article.

- object
  - `slug` string, required
  - `title` string, required
  - `deck` string, required
  - `author` string, required
  - `published` string, required
  - `updated` string, required
  - `status` 'published' | 'archived', required
  - `supersededBy` string: Slug of the newer article that replaces this one.
  - `topics` string[], required
  - `url` string, required
  - `markdownUrl` string, required: The whole article as Markdown, with its citation at both ends.
  - `places` object[], required
    - `grain` 'comune' | 'province' | 'region', required
    - `code` string, required: ISTAT code for a comune, sigla for a province, slug for a region.
    - `name` string, required
    - `url` string, required
  - `datasets` object[], required
    - `title` string, required
    - `url` string, required
    - `slug` string: The dataset's slug in GET /datasets, when the page is one of them.
    - `vintage` string
    - `coverage` string: How much of the place set the data covers, as the article states it.
  - `body` string, required: The article as Markdown, blocks flattened.
  - `attribution` object, required
    - `required` true, required: Credit with a link is the condition of free use (CC BY 4.0).
    - `license` object, required
      - `name` string, required
      - `url` string, required
    - `creditText` string, required
    - `citeAs` string, required: A ready-made citation line, with the article's canonical URL.
    - `requirement` string, required

## Other responses

- `404`: No such article, or articles aren't live yet.

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