---
title: "View default content"
method: GET
path: "/3.0/templates/{template_id}/default-content"
tags: ["templates"]
---

# View default content

`GET /3.0/templates/{template_id}/default-content`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mailchimp.com`
- URL: `https://api.mailchimp.com/3.0/templates/{template_id}/default-content`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - OAuth 2
    - Authorization code: `https://login.mailchimp.com/oauth2/authorize`
    - Token URL: `https://login.mailchimp.com/oauth2/token`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/mailchimp/apis/mailchimp-api/docs/3.0/templates/:template_id/default-content/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Get the sections that you can edit in a template, including each section's default content.

## Path parameters

- `template_id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `fields` string[]
- `exclude_fields` string[]

## Response `200`

- object: Default content for a template.
  - `_links` object[]: A list of link types and descriptions for the API schema documents.
    - `href` string: This property contains a fully-qualified URL that can be called to retrieve the linked resource or perform the linked action.
    - `method` 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'PATCH' | 'DELETE' | 'OPTIONS' | 'HEAD': The HTTP method that should be used when accessing the URL defined in 'href'.
    - `rel` string: As with an HTML 'rel' attribute, this describes the type of link.
    - `schema` string: For HTTP methods that can receive bodies (POST and PUT), this is a URL representing the schema that the body should conform to.
    - `targetSchema` string: For GETs, this is a URL representing the schema that the response should conform to.
  - `sections` object: The sections that you can edit in the template, including each section's default content.

## Other responses

- `default`: An error generated by the Mailchimp API.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/mailchimp/apis/mailchimp-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/mailchimp/apis/mailchimp-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/mailchimp/apis/mailchimp-api/revisions/53bf4b156855?raw)