---
title: "POST /v1/read-conversations"
method: POST
path: "/v1/read-conversations"
tags: ["ChatService"]
---

# POST /v1/read-conversations

`POST /v1/read-conversations`

Retrieves detailed information about specific conversations. This information enables developers to analyze the flow of user chats and understand the context of interactions, which helps in refining chatbot responses. You can read up to 100 conversations.        

Some tips for this API:
* This operation authenticates with either an API Key or OAuth 2.0 (in a JWT "Bearer Token"). You can find details of how to set up an API key or use OAuth 2.0 [here](https://docs.vectara.com/docs/console-ui/manage-api-access).

## Headers

- `customer-id` integer, required
- `timeout` string

## Request body

- ChatReadConversationsRequest
  - `conversationId` string[] — The IDs of the conversations to read. Limit: 10 conversations.

## Response `200`

A successful response.

- ChatReadConversationsResponse
  - `Conversation` ChatConversation[]
    - `id` string — The ID of the conversation. This is unique within the chat history corpus.
    - `turn` ChatTurn[] — The turns comprising this conversation.
      - `id` string — The ID of the turn. The ID of the first turn in a conversation is the same as the ID of the conversation. This is unique within the chat history corpus.
      - `conversationId` string — The ID of the conversation this turn belongs to. This is the same as the ID of the first turn in the conversation.
      - `query` string — The query text.
      - `answer` string — The answer text.
      - `enabled` boolean — Whether this turn is enabled. If a turn is disabled, it will not be used when generating answers for subsequent queries in the conversation.
      - `epochSecs` string, int64 — The time at which this turn was created.
  - `status` ComvectaraStatus
    - `code` 'OK' | 'FAILURE' | 'UNKNOWN' | 'INVALID_ARGUMENT' | 'DEADLINE_EXCEEDED' | 'ALREADY_EXISTS' | 'PERMISSION_DENIED' | 'RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED' | 'FAILED_PRECONDITION' | 'ABORTED' | 'OUT_OF_RANGE' | 'UNIMPLEMENTED' | 'INTERNAL' | 'UNAVAILABLE' | 'DATA_LOSS' | 'UNAUTHENTICATED' | 'BAD_REQUEST' | 'UNAUTHORIZED' | 'FORBIDDEN' | 'NOT_FOUND' | 'METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED' | 'CONFLICT' | 'UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE' | 'TOO_MANY_REQUESTS' | 'INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR' | 'NOT_IMPLEMENTED' | 'SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE' | 'INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE' | 'UNPARSEABLE_RESPONSE' | 'DISABLED_CUSTOMER' | 'INVALID_CUSTOMER_ID' | 'DISABLED_CORPUS' | 'INVALID_CORPUS_ID' | 'DISABLED_API_KEY' | 'EXPIRED_API_KEY' | 'INVALID_API_KEY' | 'CMK_INACCESSIBLE' | 'QRY__DISABLED_CORPUS' | 'QRY__DOCUMENT_DB_FAILURE' | 'QRY__ENCODER_FAILURE' | 'QRY__INTERRUPTED' | 'QRY__INVALID_CORPUS' | 'QRY__INVALID_START' | 'QRY__INVALID_NUM_RESULTS' | 'QRY__INVALID_CONTEXT' | 'QRY__MISSING_QUERY' | 'QRY__MISSING_CORPUS' | 'QRY__TIMEOUT' | 'QRY__TOO_MANY_CORPORA' | 'QRY__TOO_MANY_QUERIES' | 'QRY__VECTOR_INDEX_FAILURE' | 'QRY__INVALID_DIMENSION' | 'QRY__INVALID_CLIENTKEY' | 'QRY__DECRYPTION_FAILURE' | 'QRY__INVALID_RERANKER' | 'QRY__PARTIAL_RERANK' | 'QRY__RERANK_FAILURE' | 'QRY__TOO_MANY_RESULT_ROWS' | 'QRY__PARTIAL_RETRIEVAL' | 'QRY__SMRY__INVALID_SUMMARIZER_PROMPT' | 'QRY__SMRY__INVALID_SUMMARY_LANG' | 'QRY__SMRY__UNSUPPORTED_SUMMARY_LANG' | 'QRY__SMRY__PARTIAL_SUMMARY' | 'QRY__SMRY__NO_QUERY_RESULTS' | 'QRY__SMRY__EVAL_UNSUPPORTED_LANG' | 'QRY__SMRY__EVAL_FAILURE' | 'QRY__GEN__NO_QUERY_RESULTS' | 'QRY__GEN__UNPARSEABLE_MODEL_PARAMS' | 'CX_SPECS__INVALID_JSON' | 'CX_SPECS__UNREGISTERED_TYPE' | 'CX_SPECS__MISSING_SPEC' | 'CX_SPECS__MISSING_TYPE' | 'CX_SPECS__UNPARSEABLE_SPEC' | 'ADM__INVALID_CUSTOMER_ID' | 'ADM__INVALID_CORPUS_ID' | 'ADM__INVALID_ENCODER_ID' | 'ADM__INVALID_ROLE_ID' | 'ADM__ROLE_ALREADY_EXISTS' | 'ADM__ONLY_ONE_OWNER_SUPPORTED' | 'ADM__INVALID_PERMISSION' | 'ADM__ROLECREATION_FAILURE' | 'ADM__USER_EMAIL_NOT_AVAIALBLE' | 'ADM__USERNAME_NOT_AVAILABLE' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_NAME' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_ORG' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_EMAIL' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_PAYMENT' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_PLAN' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_PASSWORD' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_NAME' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_ORG' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_EMAIL' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_PAYMENT' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_PLAN' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_PASSWORD' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_ACCOUNT_ALIAS' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_EMAIL_VALIDATION_CODE' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_COUNTRY_CODE' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_ROOT_EMAIL_NOT_AVAILABLE' | 'ADM__CUST_MARK_DELETE_FAILED' | 'ADM__CUST_FAISS_DEALLOC_FAILED' | 'ADM__CUST_ALREADY_ACTIVE' | 'ADM__CUST_REACTIVATE_FAILED' | 'ADM__CUST_ENABLEMENT_FAILED' | 'ADM__CORPUS_LIMIT_REACHED' | 'ADM__STRIPE_CARD_DECLINED' | 'ADM__STRIPE_PROCESSING_ERROR' | 'ADM__EMAIL_VALIDATION_REQUEST_NOT_FOUND' | 'ADM__EMAIL_NOT_VALIDATED' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__NO_CURRENT_PLAN' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__REQUIRES_MANUAL_CHANGE' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__INVALID_PLAN_ID' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__NO_PAYMENT_SOURCE' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__INVALID_EFFECTIVE_DATE' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__CONFLICTING_CHANGE' | 'SCM__MISCONFIGURED_CONNECTION' | 'STATS_DB_READ_FAILURE' | 'VDB__TEXT_READ_FAILURE' | 'REBUILD__LOW_RECALL' | 'REBUILD__INDEX_UPLOAD_FAILURE' | 'REBUILD__UPDATE_JOURNAL_FAILURE' | 'REBUILD__UPDATE_FAISSPARAMS_FAILURE' | 'REBUILD__NO_DATA' | 'REBUILD__EVALUATION' | 'IDX__TRANSIENT_PARTIAL_DELETION_FAILURE' | 'IDX__PERMANENT_PARTIAL_DELETION_FAILURE' | 'CALB__INVALID_JSON' | 'CALB__INVALID_SPEC' | 'CALB__UNREGISTERED_TYPE' | 'CALB__MISSING_SPEC' | 'CALB__MISSING_TYPE' | 'CALB__UNPARSABLE_SPEC'
    - `statusDetail` string

## Other responses

- `default` — An unexpected error response.

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