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# Get episode

GET https://api.getzep.com/api/v4/graphs/{graph_uuid}/episodes/{episode_uuid}

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

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (required) (prefixed with ` Api-Key  `) — Type "Api-Key" followed by a space and the project API key.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `graph_uuid` (string, required) — Graph UUID
- `episode_uuid` (string, required) — Episode UUID

## Response

### 200

OK

- `content` (string, optional) — The raw content of the episode.
- `content_policy` (v4.EpisodeContentPolicy, optional) — The content policy state of the episode, present only on a graph with a bound content policy rule.
- `created_at` (string, optional) — The time the episode was created.
- `document_id` (string, optional) — The developer-assigned identifier of the document this episode belongs to, present only for episodes added to a document.
- `graph_uuid` (string, optional) — The unique identifier of the graph this episode belongs to.
- `metadata` (map from string to any, optional) — Custom metadata associated with the episode.
- `processed` (boolean, optional) — Whether the episode has finished graph extraction and indexing.
- `relevance` (double, optional) — A cross-encoder-derived relevance score, present only when the cross-encoder reranker scored this result; like score, it is omitted from plain list results.
- `role` (enum, optional) — The role of the episode's sender, present only when the episode was added as a message.
  - Allowed values: `system`, `assistant`, `user`, `function`, `tool`
- `role_name` (string, optional) — The free-form display name of the episode's sender, present only when the episode was added as a message.
- `score` (double, optional) — The ranking score returned with every search result; omitted when the episode appears in a plain list rather than a search result.
- `source` (enum, optional) — The format of the episode's content: text, json, or message.
  - Allowed values: `text`, `json`, `message`, `fact_triple`
- `source_description` (string, optional) — A free-form description of where the episode's content came from.
- `thread_uuid` (string, optional) — The thread this episode belongs to, present only for episodes added to a thread.
- `uuid` (string, optional) — The unique identifier of the episode.
- `valid_at` (string, optional) — The time the episode's content became true or was observed, used for temporal reasoning.

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Unauthorized

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Forbidden

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

### 404 Not Found Error

Not Found

- `error` (v4.ErrorBody, optional)

## Types

### v4.EpisodeContentPolicy

- `category_keys` (list of string, optional) — The keys of the categories with a matched rule.
- `dropped_count` (integer, optional) — The number of derived candidates that were dropped.
- `retained_count` (integer, optional) — The number of derived candidates that were published to the graph.
- `revision` (integer, optional) — The project revision number of the policy the graph bound.
- `status` (enum, optional) — The evaluation status. pending means the evaluation has not finished, complete means every candidate was evaluated and the graph batch was written, and failed means ingestion retries were exhausted.
  - Allowed values: `pending`, `complete`, `failed`
- `violated` (boolean, optional) — Whether at least one derived candidate matched a rule. Once true, it stays true.

### v4.ErrorBody

- `code` (string, optional)
- `details` (map from string to any, optional)
- `message` (string, optional)
- `param` (string, optional)
- `request_id` (string, optional)

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "content": "string",
  "content_policy": {
    "category_keys": [
      "health"
    ],
    "dropped_count": 0,
    "retained_count": 7,
    "revision": 3,
    "status": "complete",
    "violated": false
  },
  "created_at": "string",
  "document_id": "string",
  "graph_uuid": "string",
  "metadata": {},
  "processed": true,
  "relevance": 1.1,
  "role": "system",
  "role_name": "string",
  "score": 1.1,
  "source": "text",
  "source_description": "string",
  "thread_uuid": "string",
  "uuid": "string",
  "valid_at": "string"
}
```