---
title: "Get the assistant's full chat history as formatted text."
method: GET
path: "/ai_assistants/{assistant_id}/history/chat"
tags: ["AI Assistants"]
---

# Get the assistant's full chat history as formatted text.

`GET /ai_assistants/{assistant_id}/history/chat`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://h2ogpte.genai.h2o.ai/api/v1`
- URL: `https://h2ogpte.genai.h2o.ai/api/v1/ai_assistants/{assistant_id}/history/chat`
- Auth: HTTP bearer
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/h2o/apis/h2ogpte-rest-api/docs/ai_assistants/:assistant_id/history/chat/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Returns the assistant's complete conversation history across all wake cycles as plain text. Proxied from the file server.

## Path parameters

- `assistant_id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `offset` integer
- `limit` integer

## Response `200`

Chat history as plain text

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized - Invalid or missing API key
- `404`: Not found
- `default`: Unexpected error

## Changes

- **2026-11-06** `a82a117320f4`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/h2o/apis/h2ogpte-rest-api/changes/ai_assistants/:assistant_id/history/chat/get.md)

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