---
title: "Get a property"
method: GET
path: "/farms/{id}"
tags: ["Farms"]
---

# Get a property

`GET /farms/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.purplegrain.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.purplegrain.com/api/v1/farms/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

One property: its name and labels, the point the map opens on
(`centroid_lat` / `centroid_lon`), `area_ha` with its `area_source`, the
live `paddock_count` / `mob_count`, its outline, and its `blocks` (each
block's name, kind, paddock ids, and a derived area and outline).

`boundary` is an array of closed rings, each an array of
`[longitude, latitude]` pairs — **longitude first**, never a GeoJSON
object — or null while the property has none; `boundary_source` says how
it was captured. Write it with `updateFarmBoundary`. The paddocks and
mobs on the property, with their own outlines and counts, are
`getFarmPicture`. Any accepted member of the owning business can read; a
personal property is readable by its owner alone.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `include` string

## Response `200`

Successful

- FarmsShowResponseAttributes
  - `data` FarmModelAttributes: Single farm in attributes-adapter shape (Accept application/json).
    - `id` string
    - `type` string
    - `slug` string: Unique within its parent (a property per owner; a paddock or mob per property); generated from the name and renamed with it. The old slug keeps resolving. See `resolveLink`.
    - `visibility` 'private' | 'link' | 'public': Who can see the property and, through it, its paddocks, mobs and scoped task lists. `private` (default) is members only; `link` is anyone with the share token (`?share=`); `public` is anyone and search engines.
    - `web_path` string: The property's address on the web, e.g. `/organizations/hillcrest/properties/yarrabee`. Present on a property read directly.
    - `url` string: The whole link to hand someone; for a property shared by link it carries `?share=<token>`. Present on a property read directly.
    - `can_edit` boolean: Whether the caller may change the property. From the session's role, never the address. Present on a property read directly.
    - `share_token` string, nullable: The token behind `visibility=link`. Returned only to callers who can change who sees the property.
    - `name` string
    - `location` string, nullable
    - `size` string, nullable
    - `place_label` string, nullable: The geocoded label shown under the property name on the map, e.g. "1180 Kywong Road, Currawarna NSW 2650".
    - `centroid_lat` number, nullable: Latitude of the point the map opens on. Present exactly when `centroid_lon` is.
    - `centroid_lon` number, nullable: Longitude of the point the map opens on. Present exactly when `centroid_lat` is.
    - `boundary` array[], nullable: The property outline: an array of rings, each ring an array of `[longitude, latitude]` pairs in RFC 7946 order — **longitude first** — with at least 4 positions and the first repeated last. Not a GeoJSON object (see `FarmBoundaryModel`).
      - array[]: One closed exterior ring.
        - number[]: [longitude, latitude]
    - `boundary_captured_at` string, date-time, nullable: When the boundary was last saved. Null while the property has no ring.
    - `boundary_source` 'traced' | 'grid' | 'gps' | 'imported', nullable: How the ring was captured — traced over imagery, placed on the grid with no imagery, walked with the phone's GPS, or read from a KML/shapefile. Null for a ring saved before provenance was recorded or by a caller that named no source. Written with the ring and cleared with it.
    - `boundary_captured_by` string, nullable: Id of the user who saved the ring, stamped server-side from the request's actor and never accepted from a client. Null when a machine token saved it, and null while the property has no ring.
    - `area_ha` number, nullable: Property area in hectares. Measured from the boundary when `area_source` is `drawn`; the farmer's own number when it is `typed`.
    - `area_source` 'typed' | 'drawn', nullable: Where `area_ha` came from. A `typed` area is never overwritten by a drawn one.
    - `paddock_count` integer: How many LIVE paddocks the property has. Archived paddocks are not counted.
    - `mob_count` integer: How many LIVE mobs the property has. Archived mobs are not counted.
    - `blocks` PropertyBlock[]: The property's live blocks. Empty when every paddock is in the home block.
      - `id` string, uuid
      - `name` string
      - `kind` 'outblock' | 'irrigation_farm' | 'management'
      - `block_number` string, nullable: An optional number the business uses for the block, such as "Farm 89".
      - `paddock_ids` string[]: The ids of the live paddocks in the block, ordered by paddock name. Each of those paddocks has this block's id as its `block_id`.
      - `area_ha` number, nullable: The sum of the member paddocks' areas, in hectares. Null when no member has an area.
      - `hull` object, nullable: The convex hull of the member paddocks' boundaries as a GeoJSON geometry (usually a Polygon) in [lng, lat]. Null when no member has a boundary. For the map's dashed outline; not a boundary of its own.
        - `type` string
        - `coordinates` unknown[]
          - unknown
    - `created_at` string, date-time
    - `updated_at` string, date-time
    - `organization` object: Present when include=organization
    - `user` object, nullable: The person who owns a personal property (linkage only); null on a business's farm.
  - `meta` PaginationMeta
    - `current_page` number
    - `next_page` number, nullable
    - `prev_page` number, nullable

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not Found

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