# Get document API

Get jdocument API gets a document with the specified ID.

## Request

    GET /v1/documents/<ID>

## Path parameters

- `<ID>`
  A unique value that identifies the document in the index.

## Examples

To get a document:

    $ curl -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/v1/documents/1' | jq .

You'll see the result in JSON format. The result of the above command is:

    {
      "_id": [
        "1"
      ],
      "category": [
        "/category/search/server",
        "/language/rust"
      ],
      "description": [
        "Bayard is a full text search and indexing server, written in Rust, built on top of Tantivy."
      ],
      "name": [
        "Bayard"
      ],
      "popularity": [
        1152
      ],
      "timestamp": [
        "2019-12-19T01:41:00+00:00"
      ],
      "url": [
        "https://github.com/bayard-search/bayard"
      ]
    }