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slug: /sdks/reference/recordings/retrieve
title: Retrieve
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Use this endpoint for the Recordings method to retrieve a single recording media or its metadata.

Direct external access to recording files is useful for many external applications, so they are public and do not require Basic Auth to access.
This allows external applications to embed recording URLs without exposing their SignalWire API credentials.
SignalWire recording URLs are long and random, making them difficult to guess or exploit unless you reveal the URL.

## Recording file types

### WAV

When a recording URI has no extension or a `.wav` extension, the request will return a binary WAV version of the recording file.

`GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}`

### MP3

Setting an extension of ".mp3" on the URI returns a binary MP3 version of the recording. For example:

`GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}.mp3`

### Metadata

A recording's metadata, such as duration, cost, time, can be returned by setting the Recording URI's extension to `.json`. For example:

`GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}.json`

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<EndpointSchemaSnippet endpoint="GET /Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}" />

<EndpointResponseSnippet endpoint="GET /Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}" />

## Request examples

<CodeBlocks>
  ```javascript title="Node.js"
  const { RestClient } = require('@signalwire/compatibility-api')
  const client = RestClient('YourProjectID', 'YourAuthToken', { signalwireSpaceUrl: 'example.signalwire.com' })

  client.recordings('Sid')
        .fetch()
        .then(recording => console.log(recording.callSid))
        .done();
  ```

  ```csharp
  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using Twilio;
  using Twilio.Rest.Api.V2010.Account;

  class Program
  {
      static void Main(string[] args)
      {
          TwilioClient.Init("YourProjectID", "YourAuthToken", new Dictionary<string, object> { ["signalwireSpaceUrl"] = "{SPACE}.signalwire.com" });

          var recording = RecordingResource.Fetch(
              pathSid: "Sid"
          );

          Console.WriteLine(recording.CallSid);
      }
  }
  ```

  ```python
  from signalwire.rest import Client as signalwire_client

  client = signalwire_client("YourProjectID", "YourAuthToken", signalwire_space_url = 'example.signalwire.com')

  recording = client.recordings('Sid').fetch()

  print(recording.call_sid)
  ```

  ```ruby
  require 'signalwire/sdk'

  @client = Signalwire::REST::Client.new 'YourProjectID', 'YourAuthToken', signalwire_space_url: "example.signalwire.com"

  recording = @client.recordings('Sid').fetch

  puts recording.call_sid
  ```
</CodeBlocks>