---
title: "Fetching a list of Skills"
method: GET
path: "/skills"
tags: ["Skills"]
---

# Fetching a list of Skills

`GET /skills`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1/skills`
- Auth: none declared

The Skills endpoint provides a list of every Skill that belongs to the Account of the User making the request.
The response will contain an array of Skill objects, sorted alphabetically by the `name` attribute.

**NOTE:** You cannot create more than 5000 skills per account.


This endpoint returns structured Skill objects.
As with all Kantata OX API endpoints, the returned data will be referenced in sorted order in the `results` array
and will be indexed by ID in the `skills` top-level JSON key.
Please see our [Response Format](#section/Response-Format) section for more information.

## Query parameters

- `created_after` string, date-time
- `created_before` string, date-time
- `except` string
- `external_reference_external_message` string
- `external_reference_external_status` string
- `external_reference_service_model` string
- `external_reference_service_model_ref` integer
- `external_reference_service_model_refs` string
- `external_reference_service_name` string
- `external_reference_status` string
- `for_users` string
- `has_external_references` boolean
- `include` string
- `matching` string
- `only` string
- `order` string
- `page` integer
- `per_page` integer
- `skill_category_ids` string
- `unassigned_skills_for_estimate_scenario_resource` integer
- `unassigned_skills_for_project_template_assignment` integer
- `unassigned_skills_for_user` integer
- `unassigned_skills_for_workspace_resource` integer
- `updated_after` string, date-time
- `updated_before` string, date-time
- `without_external_reference_service_name` string

## Response `200`

A list of Skills have been retrieved.

- object
  - `count` integer
  - `meta` object
    - `count` integer
    - `page_count` integer
    - `page_number` integer
    - `page_size` integer
  - `results` object[]
    - `key` string
    - `id` string
  - `skills` object
  - `external_references` object
  - `skill_categories` object

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: Unauthorized request
- `403`: Forbidden request
- `404`: Page Not Found
- `422`: Unprocessable Entity
- `503`: Service is unavailable

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