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plaid

Get details of an institution

Returns a JSON response containing details on a specified financial institution currently supported by Plaid.

Versioning note: API versions 2019-05-29 and earlier allow use of the public_key parameter instead of the client_id and secret to authenticate to this endpoint. The public_key has been deprecated; all customers are encouraged to use client_id and secret instead.

post/institutions/get_by_id

Request body

client_idstring

Your Plaid API client_id. The client_id is required and may be provided either in the PLAID-CLIENT-ID header or as part of a request body.

secretstring

Your Plaid API secret. The secret is required and may be provided either in the PLAID-SECRET header or as part of a request body.

institution_idstring required

The ID of the institution to get details about

country_codesCountryCode[] required

Specify which country or countries to include institutions from, using the ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code standard. In API versions 2019-05-29 and earlier, the country_codes parameter is an optional parameter within the options object and will default to [US] if it is not supplied.

Response

request_idstring required

A unique identifier for the request, which can be used for troubleshooting. This identifier, like all Plaid identifiers, is case sensitive.