---
title: "Get a document by ID"
method: GET
path: "/v1/projects/{project_id}/documents/{document_id}"
tags: ["Documents"]
---

# Get a document by ID

`GET /v1/projects/{project_id}/documents/{document_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.naturali.ai`
- URL: `https://api.naturali.ai/v1/projects/{project_id}/documents/{document_id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL `https://api.naturali.ai/authorize`, token URL `https://api.naturali.ai/token`, scopes: `mcp:access`)

Returns a document with its text content

## Path parameters

- `document_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Document found

- DocumentRecord
  - `id` string: Document ID
  - `file_id` string: Underlying file ID
  - `project_id` string: Project ID
  - `path` string, nullable: Logical path of the document within the project (e.g. /reports/q1.txt)
  - `filename` string: Original filename
  - `content_type` string: Media type of the source file the document was ingested from. Absent when the underlying file is gone.
  - `size` integer: File size in bytes
  - `status` 'pending' | 'processing' | 'ready' | 'failed' | 'withdrawn': Ingestion lifecycle state. `pending` — enqueued; `processing` — chunks being extracted and embedded; `ready` — fully indexed; `failed` — processing error (see the `error` field on `GET /documents/{id}/status`); `withdrawn` — taken out of listings and search, with its chunks dropped, and restorable from an earlier version.
  - `version` integer: The document's content version, starting at 1. Every write that changes the content or its annotations archives the state it replaced and increments this.
  - `content` string, nullable: Text content (only present on getDocument, and only when status is ready)
  - `chunk_strategy` 'page' | 'whole' | 'size': The chunk strategy the document was last (re-)ingested with. Absent when the default (`whole`) was used — the mapper omits the key rather than sending `null`.
  - `chunk_size` integer: Window size in characters used when `chunk_strategy=size`. Absent otherwise.
  - `chunk_overlap` integer: Overlap in characters between consecutive windows used when `chunk_strategy=size`. Absent otherwise.
  - `created_at` string, date-time
  - `updated_at` string, date-time

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Document not found

---

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