---
title: "Retrieve a task"
method: GET
path: "/v1/tasks/{id}"
tags: ["Tasks"]
---

# Retrieve a task

`GET /v1/tasks/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.hotapi.ai`
- URL: `https://api.hotapi.ai/v1/tasks/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Fetch a task by id, including its current status and (once ready) its output.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Response `200`

An async task. Creation returns 202 with status=queued; poll GET /v1/tasks/{id} (or await the webhook) until a terminal status.

- Task: An async task. Creation returns 202 with status=queued; poll GET /v1/tasks/{id} (or await the webhook) until a terminal status.
  - `id` string, required
  - `object` 'task', required
  - `status` union, required: Lifecycle status. Terminal states: succeeded | failed | cancelled | expired.
    - 'pending'
    - 'queued'
    - 'processing'
    - 'succeeded'
    - 'failed'
    - 'cancelled'
    - 'expired'
  - `model` string, required
  - `task_kind` string, required
  - `input` object, required: The normalized request input the task was created with.
  - `output` object: Result payload, present once status=succeeded. Contains hosted asset URLs (re-hosted on our CDN).
  - `error` object
    - `type` string, required
    - `code` string, required
    - `message` string, required
  - `estimated_credits_cost` integer, required: Credits charged up-front when the task was created (1000 credits = $1).
  - `reference_video_seconds` number: Input-video seconds measured and frozen at submission; reused for draft finalization billing. Zero when no reference video was supplied.
  - `actual_credits_cost` integer: Final credits charged after settlement (equals estimate today).
  - `webhook_url` string, uri
  - `api_key_id` string: The organization's API key that created the task; absent for dashboard/session-created tasks.
  - `created_at` integer, required: Unix seconds.
  - `queued_at` integer: Unix seconds.
  - `started_at` integer: Unix seconds.
  - `completed_at` integer: Unix seconds.
  - `expires_at` integer, required: Unix seconds; result + asset retention deadline.

## Other responses

- `400`: Standard error envelope returned by every error response (OpenAI-style).
- `401`: Standard error envelope returned by every error response (OpenAI-style).
- `404`: Standard error envelope returned by every error response (OpenAI-style).
- `429`: Standard error envelope returned by every error response (OpenAI-style).

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