Read a retained source unit
Read one immutable unit from an owned source representation.
GET
/api/v2/sources/{versionId}/representations/{representationId}/units/{unitId}https://api.webcite.coWhen to use it
Use IDs returned by Publish text source units or Locate latest source units. Inspect numeric content before choosing figure_index for verification.
Request
No fixed public credit price is specified for this V2 read.
Examples run on your server. Set WEBCITE_API_KEY first. Python examples use the requests package.
curl
curl --fail-with-body -X GET 'https://api.webcite.co/api/v2/sources/YOUR_VERSIONID/representations/YOUR_REPRESENTATIONID/units/YOUR_UNITID' \
-H "x-api-key: $WEBCITE_API_KEY"Path and query parameters
versionId (path)stringrequiredrepresentationId (path)stringrequiredunitId (path)stringrequiredNo request body is required.
Response
Returns the retained unit content, locator, native metadata, and evidence state.
200 response
See the response guidance above. A complete JSON schema is not published for this response.
Errors
Foreign or mismatched source, representation, and unit IDs are rejected.