Get a single content record

Updated on Feb 19, 2026
Published on Oct 27, 2025

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Get

/contents/{id}

Retrieves a specific content item by its ID

Security

HTTP

Type basic

HTTP Basic authentication using your Tenant ID and API secret.

Username is the Tenant ID (i.e. eu-west-2_AbcdEfghI)
Password is the API secret you would have received.

You can also authenticate using OAuth 2.0 client credentials (oauth2 security scheme) instead of Basic auth.

OAuth

OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication.

Use the following token endpoints (replace :tenantId with your Tenant ID):

Public API access tokens
- Staging: https://public.api.learnstaging.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
- Production: https://public.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
- Staging MEA: https://public.api.meastaging.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
- Production MEA: https://public.api.mea.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
Webhooks access tokens
- Staging: https://user.api.learnstaging.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
- Production: https://user.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
- Staging MEA: https://user.api.meastaging.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
- Production MEA: https://user.api.mea.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId

All access tokens must be sent using the Authorization: Bearer <access_token> header.

Scopes

For API access (non-webhooks), the following scopes are available:

api/all – Full read and write access to the API.
api/read – Read-only access to the API.
api/write – Write access to the API.

For webhooks, the following scopes are available:

api/webhooks – Access to webhook functionality.
api/all – Full read and write access to the API, including webhooks.

Tokens must include appropriate scopes for the endpoints you wish to call.

FlowClient Credentials

Token URLhttps://public.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId

Path parameters

stringRequired

Unique identifier of the content item

Pattern^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$

Example5f9d88d6e1b2a34c56d78902

Responses

200

Successful response

{
  "id": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011",
  "title": "Thrive Customer Journey",
  "description": "This diagram highlights the key things you may experience on your journey as a customer of Thrive's LXP",
  "tags": [
    "customer journey",
    "faq",
    "customer success",
    "lxp"
  ],
  "type": "file",
  "createdAt": "2019-02-18T17:42:11.708Z",
  "updatedAt": "2020-02-20T13:16:22.840Z",
  "author": "5c69be0e3a38412f022b4719",
  "isOfficial": true
}

object

string

Unique identifier for the content

Pattern^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$

Example5c8936159ec2d00010cdd334

title

string

Title of the content

Max length255

ExampleAn amazing video

description

string

Detailed description of the content, may contain HTML

Max length65536

ExampleThis content looked really interesting and relevant to recent conversations in the development team