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# Retrieve a single subscriber

One subscriber by internal id — timezone, current segments and, per selected channel, status, dates, acquiring source, country and the opt-in / opt-out history. Phone number, email and names are never returned. To find the id behind a phone number use GET /subscribers?phoneNumber=.

```json
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For a subscription or\nan optin event `type` is the acquiring source — an opt-in tool type\n(popup, landing-page, embedded-form, keyword) or a non-tool source\n(import, custom-integration, public-api, shopify_checkout, …). For an\noptout event it is the reason: keyword, ai, opt_out_link, manual\n(dashboard), public-api, or a cleaning reason (deactivated_number,\nknown_litigator, landline, reassigned). `id` and `name` are present\nwhen the source is an entity: the opt-in tool (its name) or the\nimport (its file name); name is an empty string when it could not\nbe resolved.\n","required":["type"],"properties":{"type":{"type":"string","description":"Source slug or opt-out reason"},"id":{"type":"string","description":"ID of the opt-in tool or import behind the source"},"name":{"type":"string","description":"Name of the opt-in tool, or file name of the import; empty when unresolved"}}},"Optin":{"type":"object","description":"One opt-in or opt-out event of a channel.","required":["type","createdAt"],"properties":{"type":{"type":"string","description":"optin = the subscriber joined the channel; optout = the subscriber left it","enum":["optin","optout"]},"createdAt":{"type":"string","format":"date-time","description":"When the event happened"},"source":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/SubscriptionSource"},"sourceUrl":{"type":"string","description":"optin only — the page the opt-in happened on, query string included"},"integrationSlug":{"type":"string","description":"optin only — the integration that created the subscription"}}},"HttpErrorBody":{"type":"object","required":["errors"],"properties":{"errors":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"object","required":["id","code","title","detail"],"properties":{"id":{"type":"string"},"code":{"type":"string"},"title":{"type":"string"},"detail":{"type":"string"}}}}}}},"responses":{"HttpError":{"description":"HTTP Error response","content":{"application/vnd.api+json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/HttpErrorBody"}}}}}},"paths":{"/subscribers/{id}":{"get":{"summary":"Retrieve a single subscriber","tags":["Subscriber"],"operationId":"getSubscriber","description":"One subscriber by internal id — timezone, current segments and, per\nselected channel, status, dates, acquiring source, country and the\nopt-in / opt-out history. Phone number, email and names are never\nreturned. To find the id behind a phone number use\nGET /subscribers?phoneNumber=.\n","parameters":[{"name":"id","in":"path","required":true,"description":"Internal ID of the subscriber","schema":{"type":"string"}},{"name":"channel","in":"query","description":"Channels to return; each selected channel is a key of the\nresource. Defaults to sms, the only channel served today.\n","schema":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"string","enum":["sms"]},"default":["sms"]}}],"responses":{"200":{"description":"Ok","content":{"application/vnd.api+json":{"schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"data":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Subscriber"}}}}}},"4XX":{"$ref":"#/components/responses/HttpError"},"5XX":{"$ref":"#/components/responses/HttpError"}}}}}}
```


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