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# Retrieve A Live Session

Retrieves the details of an existing live session. The live session’s id that was returned upon retrieving all live sessions is required for identifying the exact one to be retrieved.

## /v1/live\_entities/:entity\_id/live\_sessions/:id

<mark style="color:blue;">`GET`</mark> `https://api.uiza.sh/v1/live_entities/:entity_id/live_sessions/:id`

#### Path Parameters

| Name       | Type   | Description                                                                |
| ---------- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| id         | string | The identifier of the live session to be retrieved.                        |
| entity\_id | string | The identifier of the live entity whose live sessions are to be retrieved. |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 " %}

```
{
    "id": "26bc07f6-c581-4c77-acbe-4ed7564d2e39",
    "live_entity_id": "df0c96c0-c9ed-4d66-ba3a-cc09e36b3828",
    "video_entity_id": "f42b4ac3-869e-4010-8e21-042e40be7655",
    "ingest_key": "live_Yez8pTBcPh",
    "duration": 324.703,
    "dvr": true,
    "preset": {
        "id": "8ab03df6-1dde-4625-a3eb-ef5cf62e4e6e",
        "name": "Uiza LIVE 480p",
        "description": "Made by developer",
        "is_default": false,
        "profiles": [
            {
                "id": "735299b7-5988-11ea-883b-028fc5698662",
                "name": "480p H264 30fps Normal Latency",
                "segment_duration": 4,
                "orientation": "landscape",
                "video_profile": {
                    "video_resolution": "480",
                    "video_codec": "H264",
                    "video_bitrate": "1000K",
                    "video_frame_rate": "30"
                },
                "audio_profile": {
                    "audio_channel": "2",
                    "audio_codec": "AAC",
                    "audio_bitrate": "128K",
                    "audio_frame_rate": "1"
                }
            }
        ],
        "created_at": "2020-03-16T09:06:21Z",
        "updated_at": "2020-03-17T06:47:20Z"
    },
    "created_at": "2020-03-18T03:00:32Z",
    "updated_at": "2020-03-18T03:05:56Z"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="400 " %}
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Missing session id" %}

```
{
 "message": "Your request is missing id parameter. Please, verify and resubmit.",
 "error_type": "invalid_request_error"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Missing entity\_id" %}

```
{
 "message": "Your request is missing entity_id parameter. Please, verify and resubmit.",
 "error_type": "invalid_request_error"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="401 " %}

```
{
 "message": "You are unauthorized to access the requested resource. Please verify and resubmit.",
 "error_type": "invalid_request_error"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="404 " %}
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Live session not found" %}

```
{
 "message": "The live session you requested does not exist.",
 "error_type": "invalid_request_error"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="500 " %}

```
{
 "message": "An unexpected error occurred on Uiza's end.",
 "error_type": "api_error"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% code title="Sample Request" %}

```
curl -X GET https://api.uiza.sh/v1/live_entities/ddb781eb-38d1-42bf-921f-0d2d9130ce15/live_sessions/1a513f1a-fe0e-4662-9512-233db26811b3 
     -H 'Authorization: uap-c1ffbff4db954ddcb050c6af0b43ba56-41193b64' 
```

{% endcode %}