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# Get User Episodes

GET https://api.getzep.com/api/v2/graph/episodes/user/{user_id}

Returns episodes by user id.

Reference: https://docs-beta.getzep.com/sdk-reference/graph/episode/get-user-episodes

## Request

### Path parameters

- `user_id` (string, required) — User ID

### Query parameters

- `lastn` (integer, optional) — The number of most recent episodes entries to retrieve.

## Response

### 200

Episodes

- `episodes` (list of apidata.GraphEpisode, optional)

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `message` (string, optional)

### 500 Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

- `message` (string, optional)

## Types

### apidata.GraphEpisode

- `content` (string, required)
- `created_at` (string, required)
- `uuid` (string, required)
- `document_id` (string, optional) — Optional document ID, will be present if the episode is part of a document
- `metadata` (map from string to any, optional)
- `processed` (boolean, optional)
- `relevance` (double, optional) — Relevance is an experimental rank-aligned score in [0,1] derived from Score via logit transformation. Only populated when using cross_encoder reranker; omitted for other reranker types (e.g., RRF).
- `role` (string, optional) — Optional role, will only be present if the episode was created using memory.add API
- `role_type` (enum, optional) — Optional role_type, will only be present if the episode was created using memory.add API
  - Allowed values: `norole`, `system`, `assistant`, `user`, `function`, `tool`
- `score` (double, optional) — Score is the reranker output: sigmoid-distributed logits [0,1] when using cross_encoder reranker, or RRF ordinal rank when using rrf reranker
- `selection_rank` (integer, optional) — SelectionRank is the global cross-scope rank assigned by auto scope selection.
- `source` (enum, optional)
  - Allowed values: `text`, `json`, `message`, `fact_triple`
- `source_description` (string, optional)
- `task_id` (string, optional) — Optional task ID to poll episode processing status. Currently only available for batch ingestion.
- `thread_id` (string, optional) — Optional thread ID, will be present if the episode is part of a thread

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "episodes": [
    {
      "content": "string",
      "created_at": "string",
      "uuid": "string",
      "document_id": "string",
      "metadata": {},
      "processed": true,
      "relevance": 1.1,
      "role": "string",
      "role_type": "norole",
      "score": 1.1,
      "selection_rank": 1,
      "source": "text",
      "source_description": "string",
      "task_id": "string",
      "thread_id": "string"
    }
  ]
}
```