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Retrieving a snippet

Retrieve a single snippet by its id.

New to snippets? See Snippets for more on what they are and how they work in the editor.

Sample requests

These sample requests are autogenerated by the OpenAPI spec. This endpoint requires one or more parameters in the URL: those are offset in curly-braces.

import requests

url = "https://api.buttondown.com/v1/snippets/{id}"
headers = {
  "Authorization": "Token $BUTTONDOWN_API_KEY"
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Sample responses

The IDs and values referenced in these responses are fake; please only rely on these responses for overall structure.

{
    "id": "snip_29fxqcmrkp969vzttksexvmvr8",
    "creation_date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
    "identifier": "footer",
    "name": "Footer",
    "content": "Thanks for reading!",
    "mode": "fancy",
    "reference_count": 0
}