---
title: "Decode input ids"
method: POST
path: "/decode"
tags: ["Text Embeddings Inference"]
---

# Decode input ids

`POST /decode`

Decode input ids

## Request body

- DecodeRequest
  - `ids` union, required
    - integer[]
    - array[]
      - integer[]
  - `skip_special_tokens` boolean

## Response `200`

Decoded ids

- string[]

## Other responses

- `422` — Tokenization error

## Changes

- **2024-03-22** `36fa20faa0bb` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2023-10-13** `8c00768ef703` — 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/huggingface/apis/text-embeddings-inference/changes/decode/post.md)

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