---
title: "Get recording status"
method: GET
path: "/v1/recordings/{recordingId}"
tags: ["Recordings"]
---

# Get recording status

`GET /v1/recordings/{recordingId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://realtimeavatar.ai/api`
- URL: `https://realtimeavatar.ai/api/v1/recordings/{recordingId}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Get durable metadata for an owned recording. Pending recordings reconcile with the recording provider. Retention expiry preserves metadata and blocks media access.

Requires an API key with the `recordings:read` scope.

## Path parameters

- `recordingId` string, required

## Response `200`

Recording

- union
  - object
    - `sessionId` string, required
    - `recordingId` string, required
    - `mode` 'audio' | 'video' | 'audio_video', required
    - `createdAt` string, date-time, required
    - `retainedUntil` string, date-time, required
    - `participant` object
      - `participantIdentity` string, required
      - `role` 'user' | 'avatar', required
    - `mediaStartedAt` string, date-time
    - `mediaEndedAt` string, date-time
    - `mediaStartOffsetMs` integer: First playable native media timestamp relative to mediaStartedAt. Playback retains this offset; it does not reset the file clock to zero.
    - `mediaMutedIntervalsMs` object[]: Intervals of hidden camera video relative to mediaStartedAt, using native media timestamps. Audio playback continues through these intervals.
      - `startMs` integer, required
      - `endMs` integer, required
    - `status` 'pending' | 'recording' | 'processing' | 'expired', required
  - object
    - `sessionId` string, required
    - `recordingId` string, required
    - `mode` 'audio' | 'video' | 'audio_video', required
    - `createdAt` string, date-time, required
    - `retainedUntil` string, date-time, required
    - `participant` object
      - `participantIdentity` string, required
      - `role` 'user' | 'avatar', required
    - `mediaStartedAt` string, date-time
    - `mediaEndedAt` string, date-time
    - `mediaStartOffsetMs` integer: First playable native media timestamp relative to mediaStartedAt. Playback retains this offset; it does not reset the file clock to zero.
    - `mediaMutedIntervalsMs` object[]: Intervals of hidden camera video relative to mediaStartedAt, using native media timestamps. Audio playback continues through these intervals.
      - `startMs` integer, required
      - `endMs` integer, required
    - `status` 'ready', required
    - `mediaType` 'audio/mp4' | 'video/mp4' | 'audio/ogg' | 'video/webm', required
    - `sizeBytes` integer, required
    - `durationMs` integer, nullable, required
  - object
    - `sessionId` string, required
    - `recordingId` string, required
    - `mode` 'audio' | 'video' | 'audio_video', required
    - `createdAt` string, date-time, required
    - `retainedUntil` string, date-time, required
    - `participant` object
      - `participantIdentity` string, required
      - `role` 'user' | 'avatar', required
    - `mediaStartedAt` string, date-time
    - `mediaEndedAt` string, date-time
    - `mediaStartOffsetMs` integer: First playable native media timestamp relative to mediaStartedAt. Playback retains this offset; it does not reset the file clock to zero.
    - `mediaMutedIntervalsMs` object[]: Intervals of hidden camera video relative to mediaStartedAt, using native media timestamps. Audio playback continues through these intervals.
      - `startMs` integer, required
      - `endMs` integer, required
    - `status` 'failed', required
    - `errorCode` 'recording_failed' | 'recording_unavailable', required

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing, malformed, revoked, or expired key.
- `403`: The key lacks the scope for this operation, or the tenant is not active.
- `404`: Recording not found in this workspace
- `503`: Recording status temporarily unavailable
- `default`: Error. Route-dependent: 400 (a field this route cannot honour — see `portraitUrl` on `UpdateAvatarRequest`), 402 (insufficient credits or spend limit), 404 (no such avatar, voice, or key for this tenant — the message often reads "does not belong to this tenant", which is a missing id and not a permission failure), 408 (the request was cancelled), 409 (the resource is not in a state that accepts this write — a stale `expectedRevision`, a render already in flight, or a mint that asked for a clip library still building), 411 (`POST /v1/assets/remote` only — the origin serving `remoteUrl` sent no `content-length`, so the platform will not stream it), 422 (strict schema rejection, or a motion description the safety screen refused), 429 (rate limited), 502 (upstream render failed), 503 (a dependency this route needs is unavailable — retryable, and nothing was written), 504 (the upstream request budget expired), 500 (unhandled). Switch on `code` where present, else `status`.

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