---
title: "Get a public source (headers only)"
method: HEAD
path: "/v1/sources/{sourceId}"
tags: ["Provenance"]
---

# Get a public source (headers only)

`HEAD /v1/sources/{sourceId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.kentekenkompas.nl`
- URL: `https://api.kentekenkompas.nl/v1/sources/{sourceId}`
- Auth: none required

Returns the same status and headers as GET without a response body.

## Path parameters

- `sourceId` string, required

## Headers

- `If-None-Match` string

## Response `200`

Headers for the successful representation.

## Other responses

- `304`: Not modified because If-None-Match matched the current representation.
- `400`: The request contains invalid encoding, control characters, ambiguous parameters or another invalid public input.
- `404`: The requested public knowledge object does not exist.
- `414`: The complete request URL exceeds 2,048 UTF-8 bytes.
- `429`: The anonymous route-class limit was exceeded at this Cloudflare location. This is not a globally exact quota.
- `503`: The selected knowledge release is not ready at this edge location, or the fail-closed request-protection binding is temporarily unavailable.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/kentekenkompas/apis/kentekenkompas-public-knowledge-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/kentekenkompas/apis/kentekenkompas-public-knowledge-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/kentekenkompas/apis/kentekenkompas-public-knowledge-api/revisions/147f92845518?raw)