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DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Snapshots

Retrieve an Existing Snapshot

To retrieve information about a snapshot, send a GET request to /v2/snapshots/$SNAPSHOT_ID.

The response will be a JSON object with a key called snapshot. The value of this will be an snapshot object containing the standard snapshot attributes.

get/v2/snapshots/{snapshot_id}

Path parameters

integer required

The ID of a Droplet snapshot.

string required

The ID of a volume snapshot.

Example:6372321

Either the ID of an existing snapshot. This will be an integer for a Droplet snapshot or a string for a volume snapshot.

Response

A JSON object with a key called snapshot.

Example response

{
  "snapshot": {
    "id": "6372321",
    "name": "web-01-1595954862243",
    "created_at": "2020-07-28T16:47:44Z",
    "regions": [
      "nyc3",
      "sfo3"
    ],
    "min_disk_size": 25,
    "size_gigabytes": 2.34,
    "resource_id": "200776916",
    "resource_type": "droplet",
    "tags": [
      "web",
      "env:prod"
    ]
  }
}