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

# Read User Defined Collection

`GET /sources/collections/{udcid}`

## Request

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

Get a user-defined collection.  The Source Folder resource defines the interface for a source folder. This resource is used to read a source folder. The default source folder is the folder without a name. If a folder isn't specified when a source is attached, the source will be put in the default folder.

## Path parameters

- `udcid` string, required

## 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#collection" target="_blank">Collection Schema (JSON)</a>

## Other responses

- `404`: The requested collection is not found.

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