> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.courier.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get Broadcast Content

> Retrieve the broadcast's content — the elemental content of its private notification template. Defaults to the working draft, since broadcast content is authored as a draft until the broadcast is sent.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi-specs/openapi.documented.yml get /broadcasts/{broadcastId}/content
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Courier
  description: The Courier REST API for sending and managing notifications across channels.
  version: 0.0.1
servers:
  - url: https://api.courier.com
    description: Production
security: []
tags:
  - name: Send
    description: >-
      Send a message to one or more recipients — users, lists, audiences, or
      tenants — across every channel you have configured.
  - name: Templates
    description: >-
      Create, update, version, publish, and localize notification templates and
      their content.
  - name: Brands
    description: >-
      Manage the logos, colors, and layout that give the templates you send a
      consistent look.
  - name: Routing Strategies
    description: >-
      Define reusable channel routing and failover strategies, and see which
      templates use them.
  - name: Journeys
    description: >-
      Build, version, publish, invoke, and cancel multi-step notification
      workflows, along with the templates scoped to them.
  - name: Broadcasts
    description: >-
      Create a one-off send to a list or audience, author its content, then send
      it immediately or schedule it for later.
  - name: User Profiles
    description: >-
      Store the contact information Courier delivers to for each user — email,
      phone number, push tokens, and any custom data you send to.
  - name: Tenants
    description: >-
      Manage tenants — the organizations, teams, or accounts your users belong
      to — along with their users and default preferences.
  - name: Audiences
    description: >-
      Define filter-based groups whose membership Courier recalculates as user
      profiles change.
  - name: Lists
    description: >-
      Manage static groups of users that you subscribe explicitly, and send to
      them by list id or list pattern.
  - name: Providers
    description: >-
      Configure the channel providers Courier delivers through, and browse the
      provider types it supports.
  - name: Preference Topics
    description: >-
      Manage the workspace catalog of subscription topics, the sections that
      group them, and publishing the preference page.
  - name: User Preferences
    description: >-
      Read and write a single user's notification preferences, per topic and per
      channel.
  - name: Messages
    description: >-
      Look up the messages Courier has accepted, inspect their delivery history
      and rendered output, and cancel, resend, or archive them.
  - name: Device Tokens
    description: >-
      Register and manage the APNS and FCM device tokens Courier delivers push
      notifications to.
  - name: Tenant Memberships
    description: >-
      Associate a user with one or more tenants, and read or remove those
      associations.
  - name: Tenant Templates
    description: >-
      Manage the templates and template versions scoped to a single tenant,
      including the ones authored in the embedded designer.
  - name: Automations
    description: >-
      Invoke a stored automation template or an ad hoc automation defined in the
      request.
  - name: Digests
    description: >-
      Inspect what has accumulated in a digest schedule and release a digest
      ahead of its next scheduled delivery.
  - name: Translations
    description: >-
      Store and retrieve the translation strings Courier uses to render
      localized template content.
  - name: Inbox
    description: Manage the messages in a user's in-app inbox.
  - name: Track Events
    description: >-
      Record an inbound event that triggers the journeys and automations mapped
      to it.
  - name: Audit Events
    description: >-
      Read the audit trail of configuration and access changes in your
      workspace.
  - name: Authentication
    description: >-
      Issue scoped, short-lived JWTs so client-side SDKs — Inbox, Preferences,
      and the embedded designer — can call Courier as a single user. Server-side
      requests authenticate with your workspace API key instead.
paths:
  /broadcasts/{broadcastId}/content:
    get:
      tags:
        - Broadcasts
      summary: Get Broadcast Content
      description: >-
        Retrieve the broadcast's content — the elemental content of its private
        notification template. Defaults to the working draft, since broadcast
        content is authored as a draft until the broadcast is sent.
      operationId: broadcasts_retrieveContent
      parameters:
        - name: broadcastId
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: version
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
          description: >-
            Accepts `draft`, `published`, or a version string (e.g. `v001`).
            Defaults to `draft`.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: ''
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotificationContentGetResponse'
        '404':
          description: Not Found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFound'
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
      x-codeSamples:
        - lang: JavaScript
          source: >-
            import Courier from '@trycourier/courier';


            const client = new Courier({
              apiKey: process.env['COURIER_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
            });


            const notificationContentGetResponse = await
            client.broadcasts.retrieveContent('broadcastId');


            console.log(notificationContentGetResponse.elements);
        - lang: Python
          source: >-
            import os

            from courier import Courier


            client = Courier(
                api_key=os.environ.get("COURIER_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
            )

            notification_content_get_response =
            client.broadcasts.retrieve_content(
                broadcast_id="broadcastId",
            )

            print(notification_content_get_response.elements)
        - lang: Go
          source: "package main\n\nimport (\n\t\"context\"\n\t\"fmt\"\n\n\t\"github.com/trycourier/courier-go\"\n\t\"github.com/trycourier/courier-go/option\"\n)\n\nfunc main() {\n\tclient := courier.NewClient(\n\t\toption.WithAPIKey(\"My API Key\"),\n\t)\n\tnotificationContentGetResponse, err := client.Broadcasts.GetContent(\n\t\tcontext.TODO(),\n\t\t\"broadcastId\",\n\t\tcourier.BroadcastGetContentParams{},\n\t)\n\tif err != nil {\n\t\tpanic(err.Error())\n\t}\n\tfmt.Printf(\"%+v\\n\", notificationContentGetResponse.Elements)\n}\n"
        - lang: Java
          source: >-
            package com.courier.example;


            import com.courier.client.CourierClient;

            import com.courier.client.okhttp.CourierOkHttpClient;

            import com.courier.models.broadcasts.BroadcastRetrieveContentParams;

            import
            com.courier.models.notifications.NotificationContentGetResponse;


            public final class Main {
                private Main() {}

                public static void main(String[] args) {
                    CourierClient client = CourierOkHttpClient.fromEnv();

                    NotificationContentGetResponse notificationContentGetResponse = client.broadcasts().retrieveContent("broadcastId");
                }
            }
        - lang: Ruby
          source: >-
            require "courier"


            courier = Courier::Client.new(api_key: "My API Key")


            notification_content_get_response =
            courier.broadcasts.retrieve_content("broadcastId")


            puts(notification_content_get_response)
        - lang: PHP
          source: >-
            <?php


            require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/vendor/autoload.php';


            use Courier\Client;

            use Courier\Core\Exceptions\APIException;


            $client = new Client(apiKey: getenv('COURIER_API_KEY') ?: 'My API
            Key');


            try {
              $notificationContentGetResponse = $client->broadcasts->retrieveContent(
                'broadcastId', version: 'version'
              );

              var_dump($notificationContentGetResponse);
            } catch (APIException $e) {
              echo $e->getMessage();
            }
        - lang: C#
          source: >-
            using System;

            using TryCourier;

            using TryCourier.Models.Broadcasts;


            CourierClient client = new();


            BroadcastRetrieveContentParams parameters = new()

            {
                BroadcastID = "broadcastId"
            };


            var notificationContentGetResponse = await
            client.Broadcasts.RetrieveContent(parameters);


            Console.WriteLine(notificationContentGetResponse);
        - lang: CLI
          source: |-
            courier broadcasts retrieve-content \
              --api-key 'My API Key' \
              --broadcast-id broadcastId
components:
  schemas:
    NotificationContentGetResponse:
      title: NotificationContentGetResponse
      type: object
      description: >-
        Elemental content response for V2 templates. Contains versioned elements
        with content checksums.
      properties:
        version:
          type: string
          description: Content version identifier.
          example: '2022-01-01'
        elements:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ElementWithChecksums'
      required:
        - version
        - elements
    NotFound:
      title: NotFound
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
            - invalid_request_error
      required:
        - type
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/BaseError'
    ElementWithChecksums:
      title: ElementWithChecksums
      type: object
      description: >-
        An element with its content checksum and optional nested elements and
        locale checksums.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        checksum:
          type: string
          description: MD5 hash of translatable content.
        type:
          type: string
          description: Element type (text, meta, action, etc.).
        elements:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ElementWithChecksums'
          description: Nested child elements (for group-type elements).
        locales:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: object
            properties:
              checksum:
                type: string
            required:
              - checksum
          description: Locale-specific content with checksums.
      required:
        - checksum
        - type
      additionalProperties: true
    BaseError:
      title: BaseError
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: A message describing the error that occurred.
      required:
        - message
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer

````