---
title: "Get a template version"
method: GET
path: "/v1/whatsapp/templates/{template_ref}/versions/{version_id}"
tags: ["whatsapp-templates"]
---

# Get a template version

`GET /v1/whatsapp/templates/{template_ref}/versions/{version_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com`
- URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/whatsapp/templates/{template_ref}/versions/{version_id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `bird_session`

Returns one version: the content of every language it holds and what its submission did with each.

## Headers

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

## Response `200`

The requested version.

- WhatsAppTemplateVersion: One version of a template: the content of every language it holds, frozen when it was submitted, alongside what Meta made of each. A draft is a version too: a mutable one, with no number and no submission date.
  - `id` string, required
  - `template_id` string, required
  - `version_number` integer, nullable: The version's sequence number, assigned when it is submitted. Null on a draft, which has not been submitted and has no place in the sequence yet.
  - `submitted_at` string, date-time, nullable, required: When this version was submitted to Meta. Null on a draft, which has not been submitted, and null for a built-in template's version, which Bird ships already approved rather than submitting on your behalf.
  - `languages` object, required: This version's content, keyed by BCP-47 language tag, with what its submission did with each language.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, nullable, required: When the version was opened. Null for a built-in template's version, which Bird ships rather than stores.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Insufficient permissions
- `404`: Resource not found
- `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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