---
title: "Get a thread message's original body"
method: GET
path: "/v1/email/threads/{thread_id}/messages/{message_id}/body"
tags: ["email-threads"]
---

# Get a thread message's original body

`GET /v1/email/threads/{thread_id}/messages/{message_id}/body`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com`
- URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/email/threads/{thread_id}/messages/{message_id}/body`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `bird_session`

Returns the original rendered HTML and plain-text body of a message in a conversation. The original body is available for 30 days after the message occurred. Later requests return `410 Gone`, while the message's extracted text stays readable on the message itself.

## Headers

- `X-Workspace-Id` string
- `X-Organization-Id` string

## Response `200`

The original rendered body.

- EmailThreadMessageBody: The original rendered body of a conversation message. Available for 30 days after the message occurred. After that, the endpoint returns `410 Gone`, but the message's extracted text stays readable on the message itself.
  - `html` string, nullable, required: The HTML body of the message, or null when the message had no HTML part.
  - `text` string, nullable, required: The plain-text body of the message, or null when the message had no text part.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Insufficient permissions
- `404`: Resource not found
- `410`: The resource existed but is no longer available.
- `422`: The request has invalid field values, violates a business rule, or carries a query parameter the endpoint does not declare. Field validation errors use `type: validation_error` and include the affected fields in `details`. Business-rule errors identify the failed rule in `type`.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal server error

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