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# Get subscription export <Badge intent="info" minimal outlined>OAuth Scope: subscriptions:read</Badge>

GET https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/{publicationId}/exports/subscriptions/{id}

This is a gated feature that requires enablement. Contact support to enable Subscription Export API access for your publication.Returns a single Subscription Export object. Once the status is `completed`, `download_url` carries a link to the CSV.

Reference: https://developers.beehiiv.com/api-reference/exports/show

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `publicationId` (string, required) — The prefixed ID of the publication object
- `id` (string, required) — The prefixed ID of the Subscription Export object

## Response

### 200

OK

- `data` (SubscriptionExport, optional)

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `status` (integer, required)
- `statusText` (string, required)
- `errors` (list of ErrorDetail, required)

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Unauthorized. The API key or OAuth access token is missing, invalid, or expired.

- `status` (integer, required)
- `statusText` (string, required)
- `errors` (list of ErrorDetail, required)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Forbidden

- `status` (integer, required)
- `statusText` (string, required)
- `errors` (list of ErrorDetail, required)

### 404 Not Found Error

Resource Not Found

- `status` (integer, required)
- `statusText` (string, required)
- `errors` (list of ErrorDetail, required)

### 429 Too Many Requests Error

Rate Limit Exceeded

- `status` (integer, required)
- `statusText` (string, required)
- `errors` (list of ErrorDetail, required)

### 500 Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

- `status` (integer, required)
- `statusText` (string, required)
- `errors` (list of ErrorDetail, required)

## Types

### SubscriptionExport

- `id` (string, optional) — The ID of the export object
- `variant` (enum, optional) — Which column set the export uses
  - Allowed values: `full`, `basic`
- `status` (enum, optional) — The status of the export
  - Allowed values: `pending`, `preparing`, `processing`, `completed`, `failed`
- `publication_id` (string, optional) — The publication ID associated with this export
- `segment_id` (string, optional) — The segment the export is scoped to. Absent when the export covers the whole publication.
- `failure_reason` (string, optional) — Set when the export status is `failed`. A fixed message, the underlying error is not exposed. Empty string otherwise.
- `download_url` (string, optional) — A signed, time-limited link to the CSV. Null until the export status is `completed`. Minted fresh on each read, so a client polling later still receives a working link.
- `completed` (integer, optional) — The timestamp of the export's completion. Null until the export status is `completed`.
- `created` (integer, optional) — The timestamp of the export's creation
- `updated` (integer, optional) — The timestamp of the export's update

### ErrorDetail

- `message` (string, required)
- `code` (string, required)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "export_a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
    "variant": "full",
    "status": "completed",
    "publication_id": "pub_f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
    "failure_reason": "",
    "download_url": "https://exports.beehiiv.com/subscriptions/export_a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890/download?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9",
    "completed": 1710510600,
    "created": 1710507000,
    "updated": 1710510600
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/pub_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/exports/subscriptions/export_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"

payload = {}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.get(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/pub_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/exports/subscriptions/export_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/pub_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/exports/subscriptions/export_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/pub_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/exports/subscriptions/export_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/pub_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/exports/subscriptions/export_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/pub_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/exports/subscriptions/export_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', [
  'body' => '{}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/pub_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/exports/subscriptions/export_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.beehiiv.com/v2/publications/pub_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/exports/subscriptions/export_00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```