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# Get a single automation by its ID

GET http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/{id}

Returns an single automation by its ID.

Reference: https://docs.itential.com/itential-platform/2023-2/api-reference/automation-catalog/get-automation-by-id

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (basic auth, required) — Basic authentication of the form `Basic <base64(username:password)>`.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `id` (string, required) — Unique id of the automation

## Response

### 200

Automation document that was requested

- `_id` (string, required) — Unique identifier of the automation
- `name` (string, required)
- `data` (object, required)
  - `gbac` (object, required) — Object containing lists of unique levels of group based access. By default these lists are empty.
    - `write` (list of string, required) — An array of group ids that have write access to the document.
    - `read` (list of string, required) — An array of group ids that have read access to the document.
  - `lastUpdated` (string, optional)
  - `formData` (object, optional)
  - `description` (string, optional)
  - `workflowId` (string, optional)
  - `formId` (string, optional) — Unique identifier of the automation
- `lastModifiedBy` (string, optional)
- `lastRunAt` (string, optional) — Agenda property defining when the last known run was process, stored in UTC. This does not include manually ran automations.
- `nextRunAt` (string, optional) — Agenda property defining when the next run will process, stored in UTC.
- `repeatInterval` (string, optional) — Agenda property defining how often an automation will repeat. Stored in human interval time format (https://github.com/agenda/human-interval).
- `migratedToOM` (boolean, optional) — Property defining whether the automation has been migrated to app-operations_manager
- `correspondingOMAutomationId` (string, optional) — Unique identifier of the automation

## Errors

### 500 Internal Server Error

Error response from API

- `any`

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "_id": "string",
  "name": "test",
  "data": {
    "gbac": {
      "write": [
        "string"
      ],
      "read": [
        "string"
      ]
    },
    "lastUpdated": "2019-11-25T22:51:39.201Z",
    "formData": {},
    "description": "string",
    "workflowId": "8e3695fe-c5bf-4286-ae83-186b3fea1c1a",
    "formId": "string"
  },
  "lastModifiedBy": "string",
  "lastRunAt": "2019-11-25T22:51:39.201Z",
  "nextRunAt": "2019-11-25T22:51:39.201Z",
  "repeatInterval": "1 hour",
  "migratedToOM": true,
  "correspondingOMAutomationId": "string"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/id"

response = requests.get(url)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/id';
const options = {method: 'GET'};

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"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/id"

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

	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("http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/id")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

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("http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/id")
  .asString();
```

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

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/id');

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

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/id");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "http://localhost:3000/automation_catalog/automations/id")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"

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()
```