---
title: "Read User Defined Collection Descriptions"
method: GET
path: "/sources/collections/{udcid}/descriptions"
tags: ["Source Box"]
---

# Read User Defined Collection Descriptions

`GET /sources/collections/{udcid}/descriptions`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apibeta.familysearch.org/platform`
- URL: `https://apibeta.familysearch.org/platform/sources/collections/{udcid}/descriptions`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Read the source descriptions in a user-defined collection.

## Path parameters

- `udcid` string, required

## Query parameters

- `start` integer
- `count` integer

## Headers

- `Accept` 'application/x-fs-v1+json' | 'application/x-gedcomx-v1+json' | 'application/json' | 'application/x-fs-v1+xml' | 'application/x-gedcomx-v1+xml' | 'application/xml', required

## Response `200`

The read was successful. See <a href="https://developers.familysearch.org/main/docs/json-schema#sourcedescription" target="_blank">SourceDescription Schema (JSON)</a>

## Other responses

- `204`: No source descriptions in the collection.
- `400`: The request was unable to be understood by the application.
- `404`: The requested collection is not found.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/familysearch/apis/family-tree-endpoints.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/familysearch/apis/family-tree-endpoints/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/familysearch/apis/family-tree-endpoints/revisions/e248abd029e6?raw)