# Stat a task file

`GET /tasks/{id}/files/metadata/{path}`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request GET \
  --url https://{host}/api/tasks/{id}/files/metadata/{path} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>'
```

```python title="Python"
import requests

url = "https://{host}/api/tasks/{id}/files/metadata/{path}"

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
```

```javascript title="JavaScript"
const options = {method: "GET", headers: {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>", "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>"}};

fetch("https://{host}/api/tasks/{id}/files/metadata/{path}", options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
```

```php title="PHP"
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{host}/api/tasks/{id}/files/metadata/{path}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
```

```go title="Go"
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://{host}/api/tasks/{id}/files/metadata/{path}"

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

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```java title="Java"
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://{host}/api/tasks/{id}/files/metadata/{path}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")
  .asString();
```

```ruby title="Ruby"
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://{host}/api/tasks/{id}/files/metadata/{path}")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["X-Pinecone-Api-Version"] = '<x-pinecone-api-version>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```
:::

:::code-group
```json title="200"
{
  "is_dir": true,
  "is_file": true,
  "size": 123,
  "modified": 123
}
```

```json title="404"
{
  "message": "<string>",
  "code": "<string>"
}
```
:::

#### Authorizations

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Authorization` | `string` | - |  |

Session token from `POST /auth/login`, sent as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.

#### Headers

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `X-Pinecone-Api-Version?` | `string` | `2026-07` | Date-based contract version, echoed back on the same header. Omit for the default (2026-07); send unstable for the in-development surface. An unrecognized value is rejected with 400 unsupported_api_version. |

#### Path Parameters

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | - | Task id. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `path` | `string` | - | Relative path within the tree. Matches greedily, so it may contain /. |

#### Response

`200` — File metadata — the archived or the live shape, depending on task state

Read after the task's files were archived.

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `is_dir` | `boolean` | - | Whether the object is a directory. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `is_file` | `boolean` | - | Whether the object is a regular file. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `size` | `integer` | - | Byte size. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `modified` | `integer \| null` | - | Unix seconds. Null when the store reports none. |

## Related pages

- [Read a task file (raw bytes)](./data-plane-task-files-read-a-task-file-raw-bytes.md)
- [List a task's files under a path](./data-plane-task-files-list-a-tasks-files-under-a-path.md)
- [List a task's working-directory files](./data-plane-task-files-list-a-tasks-working-directory-files.md)
- [Delete a task file](./data-plane-task-files-delete-a-task-file.md)

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