--- title: "Get a snippet" method: GET path: "/snippets/{workspace}/{encoded_id}" tags: ["Snippets"] --- # Get a snippet `GET /snippets/{workspace}/{encoded_id}` Retrieves a single snippet. Snippets support multiple content types: * application/json * multipart/related * multipart/form-data application/json ---------------- The default content type of the response is `application/json`. Since JSON is always `utf-8`, it cannot reliably contain file contents for files that are not text. Therefore, JSON snippet documents only contain the filename and links to the file contents. This means that in order to retrieve all parts of a snippet, N+1 requests need to be made (where N is the number of files in the snippet). multipart/related ----------------- To retrieve an entire snippet in a single response, use the `Accept: multipart/related` HTTP request header. $ curl -H "Accept: multipart/related" https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/1 Response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 2214 Content-Type: multipart/related; start="snippet"; boundary="===============1438169132528273974==" MIME-Version: 1.0 --===============1438169132528273974== Content-Type: application/json; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-ID: snippet { "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj" }, "html": { "href": "https://bitbucket.org/snippets/evzijst/kypj" }, "comments": { "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/comments" }, "watchers": { "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/watchers" }, "commits": { "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/commits" } }, "id": kypj, "title": "My snippet", "created_on": "2014-12-29T22:22:04.790331+00:00", "updated_on": "2014-12-29T22:22:04.790331+00:00", "is_private": false, "files": { "foo.txt": { "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/files/367ab19/foo.txt" }, "html": { "href": "https://bitbucket.org/snippets/evzijst/kypj#file-foo.txt" } } }, "image.png": { "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/files/367ab19/image.png" }, "html": { "href": "https://bitbucket.org/snippets/evzijst/kypj#file-image.png" } } } ], "owner": { "username": "evzijst", "nickname": "evzijst", "display_name": "Erik van Zijst", "uuid": "{d301aafa-d676-4ee0-88be-962be7417567}", "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/users/evzijst" }, "html": { "href": "https://bitbucket.org/evzijst" }, "avatar": { "href": "https://bitbucket-staging-assetroot.s3.amazonaws.com/c/photos/2013/Jul/31/erik-avatar-725122544-0_avatar.png" } } }, "creator": { "username": "evzijst", "nickname": "evzijst", "display_name": "Erik van Zijst", "uuid": "{d301aafa-d676-4ee0-88be-962be7417567}", "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/users/evzijst" }, "html": { "href": "https://bitbucket.org/evzijst" }, "avatar": { "href": "https://bitbucket-staging-assetroot.s3.amazonaws.com/c/photos/2013/Jul/31/erik-avatar-725122544-0_avatar.png" } } } } --===============1438169132528273974== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-ID: "foo.txt" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo.txt" foo --===============1438169132528273974== Content-Type: image/png MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: "image.png" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="image.png" iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAoCAYAAAD+MdrbAAABD0lEQVR4Ae3VMUoDQRTG8ccUaW2m TKONFxArJYJamCvkCnZTaa+VnQdJSBFl2SMsLFrEWNjZBZs0JgiL/+KrhhVmJRbCLPx4O+/DT2TB cbblJxf+UWFVVRNsEGAtgvJxnLm2H+A5RQ93uIl+3632PZyl/skjfOn9Gvdwmlcw5aPUwimG+NT5 EnNN036IaZePUuIcK533NVfal7/5yjWeot2z9ta1cAczHEf7I+3J0ws9Cgx0fsOFpmlfwKcWPuBQ 73Oc4FHzBaZ8llq4q1mr5B2mOUCt815qYR8eB1hG2VJ7j35q4RofaH7IG+Xrf/PfJhfmwtfFYoIN AqxFUD6OMxcvkO+UfKfkOyXfKdsv/AYCHMLVkHAFWgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== --===============1438169132528273974==-- multipart/form-data ------------------- As with creating new snippets, `multipart/form-data` can be used as an alternative to `multipart/related`. However, the inherently flat structure of form-data means that only basic, root-level properties can be returned, while nested elements like `links` are omitted: $ curl -H "Accept: multipart/form-data" https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj Response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 951 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------------------63a4b224c59f ------------------------------63a4b224c59f Content-Disposition: form-data; name="title" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" My snippet ------------------------------63a4b224c59f-- Content-Disposition: attachment; name="file"; filename="foo.txt" Content-Type: text/plain foo ------------------------------63a4b224c59f Content-Disposition: attachment; name="file"; filename="image.png" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: application/octet-stream iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAoCAYAAAD+MdrbAAABD0lEQVR4Ae3VMUoDQRTG8ccUaW2m TKONFxArJYJamCvkCnZTaa+VnQdJSBFl2SMsLFrEWNjZBZs0JgiL/+KrhhVmJRbCLPx4O+/DT2TB cbblJxf+UWFVVRNsEGAtgvJxnLm2H+A5RQ93uIl+3632PZyl/skjfOn9Gvdwmlcw5aPUwimG+NT5 EnNN036IaZePUuIcK533NVfal7/5yjWeot2z9ta1cAczHEf7I+3J0ws9Cgx0fsOFpmlfwKcWPuBQ 73Oc4FHzBaZ8llq4q1mr5B2mOUCt815qYR8eB1hG2VJ7j35q4RofaH7IG+Xrf/PfJhfmwtfFYoIN AqxFUD6OMxcvkO+UfKfkOyXfKdsv/AYCHMLVkHAFWgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== ------------------------------5957323a6b76-- ## Response `200` The snippet object. - Snippet — A snippet object. - `type` string, required - `id` integer - `title` string - `scm` 'git' — The DVCS used to store the snippet. - `created_on` string, date-time - `updated_on` string, date-time - `owner` Account — An account object. - `type` string, required - `links` AccountLinks — Links related to an Account. - `avatar` Link — A link to a resource related to this object. - `href` string, uri - `name` string - `created_on` string, date-time - `display_name` string - `uuid` string - `creator` Account — An account object. - `type` string, required - `links` AccountLinks — Links related to an Account. - `avatar` Link — A link to a resource related to this object. - `href` string, uri - `name` string - `created_on` string, date-time - `display_name` string - `uuid` string - `is_private` boolean ## Other responses - `401` — If the snippet is private and the request was not authenticated. - `403` — If authenticated user does not have access to the private snippet. - `404` — If the snippet does not exist. - `410` — If the snippet marked as spam. --- [API](https://skmtc.net/bitbucket/apis/bitbucket-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/bitbucket/apis/bitbucket-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/bitbucket/bitbucket-api/versions/7e9be973015d/schema)