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DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Certificates

Retrieve an Existing Certificate

To show information about an existing certificate, send a GET request to /v2/certificates/$CERTIFICATE_ID.

get/v2/certificates/{certificate_id}

Path parameters

certificate_idstring uuid required

A unique identifier for a certificate.

Response

The response will be a JSON object with a certificate key. This will be set to an object containing the standard certificate attributes.

Example response

{
  "certificate": {
    "id": "892071a0-bb95-49bc-8021-3afd67a210bf",
    "name": "web-cert-01",
    "not_after": "2017-02-22T00:23:00Z",
    "sha1_fingerprint": "dfcc9f57d86bf58e321c2c6c31c7a971be244ac7",
    "created_at": "2017-02-08T16:02:37Z",
    "dns_names": [
      "www.example.com",
      "example.com"
    ],
    "state": "verified",
    "type": "lets_encrypt"
  }
}