---
title: "Get account"
method: GET
path: "/accounts/{address}"
tags: ["Accounts"]
---

# Get account

`GET /accounts/{address}`

Return high level information about an account such as its sequence number.

## Path parameters

- `address` string, hex, required — Hex encoded 32 byte Aptos account address

## Query parameters

- `ledger_version` string, uint64 — A string containing a 64-bit unsigned integer. We represent u64 values as a string to ensure compatability with languages such as JavaScript that do not parse u64s in JSON natively.

## Response `200`

- AccountData
  - `sequence_number` string, uint64, required — A string containing a 64-bit unsigned integer. We represent u64 values as a string to ensure compatability with languages such as JavaScript that do not parse u64s in JSON natively.
  - `authentication_key` string, hex, required — All bytes (Vec<u8>) data is represented as hex-encoded string prefixed with `0x` and fulfilled with two hex digits per byte. Unlike the `Address` type, HexEncodedBytes will not trim any zeros.

## Other responses

- `400`
- `404`
- `500`

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