---
title: "Get Created Document"
method: GET
path: "/v1/create/{creation_id}"
---

# Get Created Document

`GET /v1/create/{creation_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.versionstory.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.versionstory.com/v1/create/{creation_id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Poll the creation job; the created document is its file, as GET /v1/files/{file_id} answers for it.

## Path parameters

- `creation_id` string, required: The creation_id POST /v1/create returned.

## Query parameters

- `format` string[], nullable: The created file's formats, each as GET /v1/files/{file_id} serves it: docx (default), pdf, md, json, html; repeatable or comma-separated.
- `inline` boolean: true adds content_base64, the file's bytes, to each ready download in file, so the client needs no second request to the download url.

## Headers

- `X-Customer-Id` string, nullable: Id of one of your customers (created in the developer dashboard) to attribute this request's credit usage to. Billing and limits stay organization-wide.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- CreationStatusResponse
  - `creation_id` string, required
  - `status` 'processing' | 'ready' | 'failed', required: The creation's status: ready once its DOCX is written. The file's status is that file's: a pdf, md, json or html made from the DOCX afterwards is pending until the file pipeline has made it.
  - `file` FileResource, required: A file: GET /v1/files/{file_id} answers with it, and every response that carries a document embeds it. It never carries version fields: a version holds its file.
    - `file_id` string, required
    - `file_name` string, required
    - `status` 'processing' | 'ready' | 'failed', required: The state of the formats this request asked for: processing while one is still being produced (poll again after Retry-After), ready when every one is in downloads, failed when the document cannot be used (error) or a requested format will never be produced.
    - `downloads` FormatDownload[], nullable: One per requested format that is ready.
      - `format` string, required
      - `url` string, required: Signed; it expires at expires_at.
      - `file_name` string, required
      - `expires_at` string, required: ISO 8601 in UTC, to the second: 2026-10-21T18:22:31Z.
      - `metadata_report` MetadataReport: What a clean found in one download and did to each kind of hidden data.
        - `format` string, required: docx, xlsx, pptx, pdf or zip.
        - `preset` string, required: standard or strict.
        - `items` MetadataReportItem[], required
          - `type` string, required: The kind of hidden data, such as author, tracked_changes or hidden_text.
          - `category` string, required: properties, review, hidden, automation, package or visible.
          - `count` integer, required: How many were found.
          - `action` string, required: What was done: remove, reset, accept, reject, anonymize, convert, unlink, apply, flatten or clean; keep or report when it was left in place.
          - `examples` string[]: A few of the values found, when they are names.
        - `warnings` MetadataReportWarning[], required
          - `type` string, required: The kind of hidden data the warning is about.
          - `message` string, required: What the reader should know before sending the document.
        - `files` integer, nullable: For a zip, how many documents inside it were cleaned.
      - `content_base64` string, nullable: Only in an edit's or a creation's files, with inline=true: the file's bytes, base64-encoded.
    - `pending_formats` string[], nullable: Requested formats still being produced.
    - `failed_formats` string[], nullable: Requested formats that will never be produced.
    - `error` ComparisonErrorDescriptor
      - `code` string, required
      - `upstream_code` string, nullable
  - `error` EditErrorDescriptor
    - `code` string, required
    - `upstream_code` string, nullable
    - `message` string, nullable

## Other responses

- `400`: The request is invalid: INVALID_REQUEST when a parameter or the body fails validation, otherwise the code of the operation's own refusal.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/versionstory/apis/version-story-public-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/versionstory/apis/version-story-public-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/versionstory/apis/version-story-public-api/revisions/994ce15faf32?raw)