---
title: "Get a specific note"
description: "GET /notes/{note_id} — Returns one note — its text, author, date, the contact it belongs to, any attachments, and the linked deal if there is one. Any user who can see the note's contact can read it, not just its author."
canonical_url: https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/reference/notes/get-notes-note_id/
source: Markdown mirror of https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/reference/notes/get-notes-note_id/
---

`GET /notes/{note_id}`

Returns one note — its text, author, date, the contact it belongs to, any attachments, and the linked deal if there is one. Any user who can see the note's contact can read it, not just its author.

Resource: [Notes](https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/reference/notes/) · [API Reference](https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/reference/)

## Request

```bash
curl "https://app.onepagecrm.com/api/v3/notes/{note_id}" \
  -u $user_id:$api_key
```

Authentication is HTTP Basic — `user_id` as username, `api_key` as password.
See https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/authentication/.

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `note_id` | string | Note ID |

## Responses

### 200

OK

```json
{
  "status": 0,
  "message": "OK",
  "timestamp": 1528373119,
  "data": {
    "note": {
      "id": "5afc1b69d556730b580596cb",
      "contact_id": "5ae06ef9d55673108fe8877f",
      "text": "I met Jane Doe at the ABC conference. She's interested in hearing about XYZ.",
      "date": "2018-05-16",
      "linked_deal_id": "",
      "linked_deal_name": "",
      "author": "Jane D.",
      "attachments": [
        {
          "id": "5afc1ea9d556730b780096db",
          "filename": "mario.jpg",
          "custom_filename": "another_mario.jpg",
          "pinned": true,
          "pinned_at": "2022-01-24T10:42:39Z",
          "size": 3841,
          "storage_provider": "amazon",
          "url": "https://{foo.bar}/mario.jpg",
          "url_expires_at": "2018-05-16T13:06:53Z",
          "thumbnail": {
            "url": "https://{foo.bar}/mario-thumbnail.jpg"
          }
        }
      ],
      "created_at": "2018-05-16T11:52:09Z",
      "modified_at": "2018-05-16T11:52:09Z"
    }
  }
}
```

Standard error responses: 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 500 — shared across the API. See https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/errors/.

## Related guides

- [Authentication](https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/authentication/)
- [Errors](https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/errors/)
- [Rate limits](https://developer.onepagecrm.com/api/rate-limits/)