---
title: Get artifact metadata
url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/http/compliance/apps/artifacts/retrieve
---

# Get artifact metadata

**GET** `/v1/compliance/apps/artifacts/{artifact_version_id}`

Returns metadata for an artifact version, without the content body.

Use the sibling `/content` endpoint to fetch the artifact text. The
`md5` and `size_bytes` fields here are computed over the UTF-8
encoding of that text, so a DLP consumer can dedupe or match hashes
without downloading every artifact.

## Path parameters

- `artifact_version_id: string`

  The artifact version ID (tagged ID, e.g., claude_artifact_version_abc123)

## Headers

- `"anthropic-version": optional string`

  The version of the Claude API you want to use.

  Read more about versioning and our version history [here](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/versioning?sdk_languages=http).

- `"x-api-key": optional string`

## Returns

- `id: string`

  Artifact ID e.g. 'claude_artifact_abc123'

- `artifact_type: string or null`

  MIME-like artifact type e.g. 'application/vnd.ant.code'

- `claude_chat_id: string`

  The chat this artifact belongs to

- `created_at: string`

  Artifact version creation timestamp

  format: date-time

- `md5: string`

  Lowercase hex MD5 of the artifact content (UTF-8 encoded). Matches the `content` field returned by the sibling `/content` endpoint.

- `size_bytes: number`

  Size in bytes of the artifact content (UTF-8 encoded)

- `title: string or null`

  Artifact title

- `version_id: string`

  Artifact version ID e.g. 'claude_artifact_version_abc123'

## Example

```bash
curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/compliance/apps/artifacts/$ARTIFACT_VERSION_ID \
    -H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANTHROPIC_COMPLIANCE_API_KEY"
```

### Response (200)

```json
{
  "id": "id",
  "artifact_type": "artifact_type",
  "claude_chat_id": "claude_chat_id",
  "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "md5": "md5",
  "size_bytes": 0,
  "title": "title",
  "version_id": "version_id"
}
```