---
title: "Reference"
method: GET
path: "/v1/reference/{topic}"
---

# Reference

`GET /v1/reference/{topic}`

## 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/reference/{topic}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Read one page of Version Story's documentation; it changes nothing. The pages: listing (the format
GET /v1/files/{file_id}?format=md returns, and how a text selector matches), edits (the fields of each edit type POST /v1/edit
takes, with an example of each), redline (the change markup in a redline's text), errors (what each
error code means and what to do), local_copy (how the other tools handle the user's own copy of a
document).

## Path parameters

- `topic` string, required

## 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

- object

## 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)