> ## Documentation Index
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# Get message

> Returns a sent message's status, recipient, event, and per-provider delivery detail, with timestamps for enqueued, sent, delivered, opened, and clicked.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi-specs/openapi.documented.yml get /messages/{message_id}
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:
  /messages/{message_id}:
    get:
      tags:
        - Messages
      summary: Get message
      description: >-
        Returns a sent message's status, recipient, event, and per-provider
        delivery detail, with timestamps for enqueued, sent, delivered, opened,
        and clicked.
      operationId: messages_get
      parameters:
        - name: message_id
          in: path
          description: >-
            A unique identifier associated with the message you wish to retrieve
            (results from a send).
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: ''
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageDetailsExtended'
              examples:
                Example:
                  value:
                    id: 1-5e2b2615-05efbb3acab9172f88dd3f6f
                    status: CANCELED
                    enqueued: 1
                    sent: 1
                    delivered: 1
                    opened: 1
                    clicked: 1
                    recipient: string
                    event: string
                    notification: string
                    error: string
                    reason: BOUNCED
                    providers:
                      - {}
        '400':
          description: ''
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/BadRequest'
              examples:
                Example:
                  value:
                    message: Example message text
                    type: invalid_request_error
        '404':
          description: ''
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageNotFound'
              examples:
                Example:
                  value:
                    message: Example message text
                    type: invalid_request_error
      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 message = await client.messages.retrieve('message_id');

            console.log(message);
        - 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
            )
            message = client.messages.retrieve(
                "message_id",
            )
            print(message)
        - 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\tmessage, err := client.Messages.Get(context.TODO(), \"message_id\")\n\tif err != nil {\n\t\tpanic(err.Error())\n\t}\n\tfmt.Printf(\"%+v\\n\", message)\n}\n"
        - lang: Java
          source: |-
            package com.courier.example;

            import com.courier.client.CourierClient;
            import com.courier.client.okhttp.CourierOkHttpClient;
            import com.courier.models.messages.MessageRetrieveParams;
            import com.courier.models.messages.MessageRetrieveResponse;

            public final class Main {
                private Main() {}

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

                    MessageRetrieveResponse message = client.messages().retrieve("message_id");
                }
            }
        - lang: Ruby
          source: |-
            require "courier"

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

            message = courier.messages.retrieve("message_id")

            puts(message)
        - 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 {
              $message = $client->messages->retrieve('message_id');

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

            using TryCourier;

            using TryCourier.Models.Messages;


            CourierClient client = new();


            MessageRetrieveParams parameters = new() { MessageID = "message_id"
            };


            var message = await client.Messages.Retrieve(parameters);


            Console.WriteLine(message);
        - lang: CLI
          source: |-
            courier messages retrieve \
              --api-key 'My API Key' \
              --message-id message_id
components:
  schemas:
    MessageDetailsExtended:
      title: MessageDetailsExtended
      type: object
      properties:
        providers:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            additionalProperties: true
          nullable: true
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageDetails'
    BadRequest:
      title: BadRequest
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
            - invalid_request_error
      required:
        - type
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/BaseError'
    MessageNotFound:
      title: MessageNotFound
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
            - invalid_request_error
      required:
        - type
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/BaseError'
    MessageDetails:
      title: MessageDetails
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: >-
            A unique identifier associated with the message you wish to retrieve
            (results from a send).
        status:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageStatus'
          description: The current status of the message.
        enqueued:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: >-
            A UTC timestamp at which Courier received the message request.
            Stored as a millisecond representation of the Unix epoch.
        sent:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: >-
            A UTC timestamp at which Courier passed the message to the
            Integration provider. Stored as a millisecond representation of the
            Unix epoch.
        delivered:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: >-
            A UTC timestamp at which the Integration provider delivered the
            message. Stored as a millisecond representation of the Unix epoch.
        opened:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: >-
            A UTC timestamp at which the recipient opened a message for the
            first time. Stored as a millisecond representation of the Unix
            epoch.
        clicked:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: >-
            A UTC timestamp at which the recipient clicked on a tracked link for
            the first time. Stored as a millisecond representation of the Unix
            epoch.
        recipient:
          type: string
          description: >-
            A unique identifier associated with the recipient of the delivered
            message.
        event:
          type: string
          description: >-
            A unique identifier associated with the event of the delivered
            message.
        notification:
          type: string
          description: >-
            A unique identifier associated with the notification of the
            delivered message.
        error:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: A message describing the error that occurred.
        reason:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Reason'
          nullable: true
          description: The reason for the current status of the message.
      required:
        - id
        - status
        - enqueued
        - recipient
        - event
        - notification
    BaseError:
      title: BaseError
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: A message describing the error that occurred.
      required:
        - message
    MessageStatus:
      title: MessageStatus
      type: string
      enum:
        - CANCELED
        - CLICKED
        - DELAYED
        - DELIVERED
        - DIGESTED
        - ENQUEUED
        - FILTERED
        - OPENED
        - ROUTED
        - SENT
        - SIMULATED
        - THROTTLED
        - UNDELIVERABLE
        - UNMAPPED
        - UNROUTABLE
    Reason:
      title: Reason
      type: string
      enum:
        - BOUNCED
        - FAILED
        - FILTERED
        - NO_CHANNELS
        - NO_PROVIDERS
        - OPT_IN_REQUIRED
        - PROVIDER_ERROR
        - UNPUBLISHED
        - UNSUBSCRIBED
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer

````