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title: "Read a turn – Superbot API"
canonical_url: "https://superbot.gg/developers/gateway/getTurn"
summary: "Where a turn of one of your conversations stands: `running` with the text so far, `done` with the reply (and `assets`, the files it made, for a caller key that draws no cards), `error`, `cancelled`. `?request=` names one turn (the `request_id` of an async call’s 202, from either form: `x-superbot-callback-url` or `Prefer: respond-async`); without it the conversation’s newest turn. A turn the gateway admitted reads `running` (empty `text`) from the moment of its 202, before the agent has produced a frame, so a poll that starts at once never sees a gap; one an earlier process lost after admitting it reads `error` with reason `interrupted`. Turns are stored for 24 hours. Needs the `turns:read` scope; the read bills nothing. A missing or unknown bearer is `401`, a key without the scope `403 insufficient_scope`, a request id this account never admitted `404 no_turn` and a deleted conversation `410 chat_deleted`."
---

> Markdown of https://superbot.gg/developers/gateway/getTurn. Site index: /llms.txt.

# Read a turn

`GET /v1/turns/{session}`

Where a turn of one of your conversations stands: `running` with the text so far, `done` with the reply (and `assets`, the files it made, for a caller key that draws no cards), `error`, `cancelled`. `?request=` names one turn (the `request_id` of an async call’s 202, from either form: `x-superbot-callback-url` or `Prefer: respond-async`); without it the conversation’s newest turn. A turn the gateway admitted reads `running` (empty `text`) from the moment of its 202, before the agent has produced a frame, so a poll that starts at once never sees a gap; one an earlier process lost after admitting it reads `error` with reason `interrupted`. Turns are stored for 24 hours. Needs the `turns:read` scope; the read bills nothing. A missing or unknown bearer is `401`, a key without the scope `403 insufficient_scope`, a request id this account never admitted `404 no_turn` and a deleted conversation `410 chat_deleted`.

- Operation id: `getTurn`
- Group: [Gateway](https://superbot.gg/developers/gateway.md)
- Auth: A caller key holding `turns:read` (`Authorization: Bearer sbc_…` or `x-api-key: sbc_…`), or a signed-in session.
- Scopes: `turns:read`

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `session` | string | required | The conversation id (what `x-superbot-session` named, or the `session` of an async call’s 202). |

## Query parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `request` | string | optional | A turn’s request id. |

## Response 200

The turn.

`application/json`: TurnRecord.

- `state` (string, required): Where the turn stands. One of `running`, `done`, `error`, `cancelled`, `parked`.
- `request_id` (string, required)
- `text` (string): The reply so far (`running`) or the whole reply (`done`).
- `assets` (array of TurnAsset): Only on a `done` turn, only when it made files, and only when the read is by a caller key that draws no cards (an automation step, a script): the files the reply names, one entry per file, in order. `text` is unchanged beside it.
  - `name` (string, required): A file name with its extension where one is known, ready to hand to a Gmail attachment or a Drive upload.
  - `mime` (string, required): The file’s media type.
  - `size` (integer, required): The size in bytes.
  - `url` (string, required): Where to fetch the bytes. A generated picture, sound or clip is at `/gen/`; an artifact is published at an unguessable, immutable public link (`/shared/` or `/gen/`) for a `zapier/` or `n8n/` caller, and answered by its signed artifact link (valid 24 hours) for any other.

## Errors

Every refusal carries `error`, `message`, `doc_url` and `request_id`; the gateway routes answer in the dialect you dialed.

| Status | Codes | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | [`unauthorized`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-unauthorized) | The bearer is missing, malformed or unknown. |
| 403 | [`insufficient_scope`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-insufficient_scope) | The key lacks a scope (insufficient_scope), is revoked, or may not call this route. |
| 404 | [`not_found`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-not_found) | No such resource on this account. |

## Examples

```sh
curl -sS -X GET "https://superbot.gg/v1/turns/$SESSION" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPERBOT_API_KEY"
```

```js
const session = 'SESSION';
const res = await fetch(`https://superbot.gg/v1/turns/${session}`, {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SUPERBOT_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
console.log(res.status, await res.json());
```

```python
import os
import requests

session = "SESSION"
res = requests.request(
    "GET",
    f"https://superbot.gg/v1/turns/{session}",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SUPERBOT_API_KEY']}",
    },
)
print(res.status_code, res.json())
```