---
title: "Get Current Account"
method: GET
path: "/account"
tags: ["Account"]
---

# Get Current Account

`GET /account`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.wistia.com/modern`
- URL: `https://api.wistia.com/modern/account`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Retrieves a summary of the Wistia account including account name, description, URL and counts of records.

## Requires api token with one of the following permissions
```
(any scope allowed)
```

Tokens with the "Act with a team member's permissions" permission
(`all:delegate_to_contact_permissions` scope) can also be used. Requests
made with such a token are authorized using the permissions of the
contact assigned to the token.

[Expiring access tokens](https://docs.wistia.com/reference/post_expiring-token)
created with authorizations cannot be used: this endpoint responds with a
403, whatever the authorizations grant.

## Headers

- `X-Wistia-API-Version` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful response

- object: An account represents a customer at Wistia. Each account can own media, folders channels, etc.
  - `id` integer, required: Numeric id of the account
  - `name` string, required: Account name
  - `url` string, required: Account’s main Wistia URL (e.g. http://brendan.wistia.com)
  - `media_count` integer, required: The total number of medias in this account
  - `video_limit` integer, nullable, required: The account's video limit
  - `folder_count` integer, required: The total number of folders in this account
  - `channel_count` integer, required: The total number of channels in this account

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized, invalid or missing token
- `403`: Forbidden, token is valid but account does not have access to feature
- `500`: Internal server error

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `b86cb2a7b420`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/wistia/apis/data-api/changes/account/get.md)

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