---
title: "Fetch a conversation from your service"
method: GET
path: "/v1/Services/{ChatServiceSid}/Conversations/{Sid}"
tags: ["ConversationsV1Conversation"]
---

# Fetch a conversation from your service

`GET /v1/Services/{ChatServiceSid}/Conversations/{Sid}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://conversations.twilio.com`
- URL: `https://conversations.twilio.com/v1/Services/{ChatServiceSid}/Conversations/{Sid}`
- Auth: HTTP basic

Fetch a conversation from your service

## Path parameters

- `ChatServiceSid` string, required
- `Sid` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- ConversationsV1ServiceServiceConversation
  - `account_sid` string, nullable: The unique ID of the [Account](https://www.twilio.com/docs/iam/api/account) responsible for this conversation.
  - `chat_service_sid` string, nullable: The unique ID of the [Conversation Service](https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/api/service-resource) this conversation belongs to.
  - `messaging_service_sid` string, nullable: The unique ID of the [Messaging Service](https://www.twilio.com/docs/messaging/api/service-resource) this conversation belongs to.
  - `sid` string, nullable: A 34 character string that uniquely identifies this resource.
  - `friendly_name` string, nullable: The human-readable name of this conversation, limited to 256 characters. Optional.
  - `unique_name` string, nullable: An application-defined string that uniquely identifies the resource. It can be used to address the resource in place of the resource's `sid` in the URL.
  - `attributes` string, nullable: An optional string metadata field you can use to store any data you wish. The string value must contain structurally valid JSON if specified. **Note** that if the attributes are not set "{}" will be returned.
  - `state` 'inactive' | 'active' | 'closed' | 'initializing': Current state of this conversation. Can be either `initializing`, `active`, `inactive` or `closed` and defaults to `active`
  - `date_created` string, date-time, nullable: The date that this resource was created.
  - `date_updated` string, date-time, nullable: The date that this resource was last updated.
  - `timers` unknown
  - `url` string, uri, nullable: An absolute API resource URL for this conversation.
  - `links` object, nullable: Contains absolute URLs to access the [participants](https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/api/conversation-participant-resource), [messages](https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/api/conversation-message-resource) and [webhooks](https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/api/conversation-scoped-webhook-resource) of this conversation.
  - `bindings` unknown

## Changes

- **2025-09-30** (v1) `b0b12d0bcb0b`: 1 warning
  - added the new `initializing` enum value to the `state` response property for the response status `200`
- **2025-07-03** (v1) `92d1169c37c2`: 2 breaking
  - the `bindings` response's property type changed from `object` to no type for status `200`
  - the `timers` response's property type changed from `object` to no type for status `200`
- **2025-03-11** (v1) `b4d0e634cd69`: 2 breaking
  - the `bindings` response's property type changed from no type to `object` for status `200`
  - the `timers` response's property type changed from no type to `object` for status `200`
- **2023-08-10** (v1) `4e3f150aaa78`: 1 info
  - api tag `ConversationsV1Conversation` added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/twilio/apis/conversations-v1/changes/v1/Services/:ChatServiceSid/Conversations/:Sid/get.md)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/twilio/apis/conversations-v1.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/twilio/apis/conversations-v1/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/twilio/apis/conversations-v1/revisions/6a37056c7727?raw)