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# API · Assets · Get an asset by ID

GET https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/{id}

Retrieve a workspace asset by UUID. Use this to resolve the final
stored URLs and to check processing status after an async create
(`createAsset` from a URL, or a signed upload) — the asset UUID is
returned immediately but the file download / S3 upload / thumbnail
generation completes in the background.

Key response fields:
- `status` — processing state: `0` NOT_STARTED, `1` IN_PROGRESS,
  `2` PROCESSING_FAILED, `3` THUMBNAIL_FAILED, `4` DONE,
  `10` NOT_PROCESSED. Poll until `4` before relying on the URLs.
- `file_url` / `thumbnail` — signed URLs to the stored file (expire,
  ~12h; re-fetch to refresh).
- `asset_url` — non-signed stored URL.
- `asset_type` — image / video / audio / pdf / etc.
- `payload` — extracted media metadata (width, height, duration,
  format, ...).


Reference: https://docs.simplified.com/api-reference/platform/assets/get-asset

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (required) (prefixed with ` Api-Key   `) — Header authentication of the form `Api-Key  <token>`
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `id` (string, required) — Asset UUID (e.g. the id returned by `createAsset`).

## Response

### 200

Asset detail

- `any`

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Unauthorized

- `any`

### 404 Not Found Error

Asset not found (or not in this workspace/space)

- `any`

## Examples

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/id"

headers = {"Authorization": "Api-Key  <apiKey>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/id';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Api-Key  <apiKey>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/id"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Api-Key  <apiKey>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/id")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Api-Key  <apiKey>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/id")
  .header("Authorization", "Api-Key  <apiKey>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/id', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Api-Key  <apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/id");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Api-Key  <apiKey>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Api-Key  <apiKey>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.simplified.com/api/v1/assets/id")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```