---
title: "Get snapshot information"
method: GET
path: "/artifact/snapshot/{digest}"
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# Get snapshot information

`GET /artifact/snapshot/{digest}`

Returns the information of a snapshot and where to retrieve its binary content

## Path parameters

- `digest` string, bytes, required

## Response `200`

snapshot found

- SnapshotMessage — Snapshot represents a snapshot file and its metadata
  - `digest` string, bytes, required — Digest that is signed by the signer participants
  - `network` string, required — Cardano network
  - `beacon` CardanoDbBeacon, required — A point in the Cardano chain at which a Mithril certificate of the Cardano Database should be produced
    - `epoch` integer, required — Cardano chain epoch number
    - `immutable_file_number` integer, required — Number of the last immutable file that should be included the snapshot
  - `certificate_hash` string, bytes, required — Hash of the associated certificate
  - `size` integer, required — Size of the immutables snapshot file in Bytes
  - `ancillary_size` integer — Size of the ancillary snapshot file in Bytes
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required — Date and time at which the snapshot was created
  - `locations` string[], required — Locations where the snapshot of the immutable files can be retrieved
  - `ancillary_locations` string[] — Locations where the snapshot of the ancillary files can be retrieved
  - `compression_algorithm` string — Compression algorithm for the snapshot archive
  - `cardano_node_version` string — Version of the Cardano node which is used to create snapshot archives.

## Other responses

- `404` — snapshot not found
- `default` — snapshot retrieval error

## Changes

- **2025-06-13** `1b81bf42f34b` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/input-output-hk/apis/mithril-aggregator-server/changes/artifact/snapshot/:digest/get.md)

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