# GET Type by ID

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{% tab title="Base URL" %}

```javascript
https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/types/{ID}
```

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{% tab title="Example Response" %}

```json
{
    "id": 1,
    "parent_id": null,
    "name": "1st Half",
    "code": "1st-half",
    "developer_name": "INPLAY_1ST_HALF",
    "group": null,
    "description": null
},
```

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{% tab title="Field Description" %}

| Field           | Description                             | Type    |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------- |
| id              | Refers to the id of the type            | integer |
| parent\_id      | Refers to the parent type               | integer |
| name            | Displays the name of the type           | string  |
| code            | Displays the code of the type           | string  |
| developer\_name | Displays the developer name of the type | string  |
| group           | Displays the group the type falls under | string  |
| description     | Displays the description of the type    | string  |
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#### Parameters  

<table><thead><tr><th>Query Parameters</th><th width="164.33333333333331">Required?</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>api_token</code></td><td>YES</td><td>Your unique API token</td></tr><tr><td><code>include</code></td><td>NO</td><td>Enrich the API with more data by using includes</td></tr><tr><td><code>select</code></td><td>NO</td><td>Select specific fields on the <a href="broken-reference">base entity</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Pagination

No

#### Include depth

You can use a total of `0` nested includes on this endpoint

#### Include options

Using includes is disabled for this endpoint.

**Related Entities:**

Get an overview and explanation of all the fields returned in the API response. The related entities for the cities' endpoints are:

* [Type](https://docs.sportmonks.com/v3/core-api/entities/core#type)

#### Code Example

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{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/types/1?api_token={your_token}")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

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

response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

```

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{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.sportmonks.com")
payload = ''
headers = {}
conn.request("GET", "/v3/core/types/1?api_token={your_token}", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))
```

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{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/types/1?api_token={your_token}',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $respons
```

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{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/types/1?api_token={your_token}")
  .method("GET", null)
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
```

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{% tab title="Node.js" %}

```
var unirest = require('unirest');
var req = unirest('GET', 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/types/1?api_token={your_token}')
  .end(function (res) { 
    if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error); 
    console.log(res.raw_body);
  });
```

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{% tab title="Go" %}

```go
package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/types/1?api_token={your_token}"
  method := "GET"

  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}
```

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