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Read a retained source unit

Read one immutable unit from an owned source representation.

Markdown
GET/api/v2/sources/{versionId}/representations/{representationId}/units/{unitId}https://api.webcite.co

When 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)stringrequired
representationId (path)stringrequired
unitId (path)stringrequired

No 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.

Error handling and retry guidance