---
title: "Manually managed audience segments"
method: GET
path: "/api/segments"
tags: ["segments"]
---

# Manually managed audience segments

`GET /api/segments`

Retrieve a list of manually managed audience segments.

### Audience Segments Overview:
- Audience Segments are cohorts of users grouped together for targeting announcements, features, or promotional campaign banners (Billboards).
- This endpoint lists manual cohorts created and maintained by site administrators.
- Requires administrator privileges.

The endpoint supports pagination, and each page will contain `30` segments by default.

## Query parameters

- `per_page` integer

## Response `200`

A List of manually managed audience segments

- Segment[]
  - `id` integer — The ID of the segment
  - `type_of` 'manual' — Marks the segment as manually managed (other types are internal)
  - `user_count` integer — The current number of users in the segment

## Other responses

- `401` — Unauthorized

## Changes

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- **2026-07-13** (v1) `189b62b952ea` — 1 breaking
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- **2026-07-13** (v1) `7db6ba099285` — 1 breaking
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- **2026-05-28** (v1) `6550ad7be94f` — 1 info
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- **2026-03-03** (v1) `c9e7662755c2` — 1 breaking
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- **2023-12-18** (v1) `1c81594090c0` — 1 info
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `401`

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/forem/apis/forem-api-v1/changes/api/segments/get.md)

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