For guidance and examples, see [Fetch data](/guides/manage-data-fetch-data).

```shell curl theme={null}
# To get the unique host for an index,
# see https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/manage-data/target-an-index
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
INDEX_HOST="INDEX_HOST"

curl -X POST "https://$INDEX_HOST/vectors/fetch_by_metadata" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
  -d '{
    "namespace": "__default__",
    "filter": {"genre": {"$eq": "Action/Adventure"}},
    "limit": 2
  }'
```

```json curl theme={null}
{
  "vectors": {
    "0": {
      "id": "0",
      "values": [
        0.0234527588, 0.0291595459 ...
      ],
      "metadata": {
        "box-office": 2923706026,
        "genre": "Action/Adventure",
        "summary": "On the alien world of Pandora, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully uses an avatar to walk again and becomes torn between his mission and protecting the planet's indigenous Na'vi people. The film stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver.",
        "title": "Avatar",
        "year": 2009
      }
    },
    "1": {
      "id": "1",
      "values": [
        0.0397644043, 0.013053894, ...
      ],
      "metadata": {
        "box-office": 2799439100,
        "genre": "Action/Adventure",
        "summary": "In the aftermath of Thanos wiping out half of the universe, the remaining Avengers assemble once more to undo the chaos, leading to a time-traveling adventure. Stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson.",
        "title": "Avengers: Endgame",
        "year": 2019
      }
    }
  },
  "namespace": "__default__",
  "usage": {
    "readUnits": 1
  },
  "pagination": {
    "next": "Tm90aGluZyB0byBzZWUgaGVyZQo="
  }
}
```

`POST /vectors/fetch_by_metadata`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request POST \
  --url https://{index_host}/vectors/fetch_by_metadata \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "namespace": "example-namespace",
  "filter": {
    "genre": {
      "$in": [
        "comedy",
        "documentary",
        "drama"
      ]
    },
    "year": {
      "$eq": 2019
    }
  },
  "limit": 12,
  "paginationToken": "Tm90aGluZyB0byBzZWUgaGVyZQo="
}'
```

```json title="200"
{
  "namespace": "example-namespace",
  "pagination": {
    "next": "Tm90aGluZyB0byBzZWUgaGVyZQo="
  },
  "usage": {
    "readUnits": 5
  },
  "vectors": {
    "id-1": {
      "id": "id-1",
      "metadata": {
        "genre": "documentary",
        "year": 2019
      },
      "values": [
        1,
        1.5
      ]
    },
    "id-2": {
      "id": "id-2",
      "metadata": {
        "genre": "comedy",
        "year": 2019
      },
      "values": [
        2,
        1
      ]
    }
  }
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`.

## Headers

- `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` (header, string, required) — Required date-based version header

## Body

- `namespace` (body, string) — The namespace to fetch vectors from.
- `filter` (body, object) — Metadata filter expression to select vectors. See [Understanding metadata](/guides/index-data-indexing-overview#metadata).
- `limit` (body, integer) — Max number of vectors to return.
- `paginationToken` (body, string) — Pagination token to continue a previous listing operation.

## Response

- `200` — A successful response.
- `400` — Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.
- `4XX` — An unexpected error response.
- `5XX` — An unexpected error response.

## Related pages

- [Search with a vector](./database-2026-07-data-plane-query.md)
- [Search with text](./database-2026-07-data-plane-search-records.md)
- [Upsert records](./database-2026-07-data-plane-upsert.md)
- [Upsert text](./database-2026-07-data-plane-upsert-records.md)
- [Fetch records](./database-2026-07-data-plane-fetch.md)
- [Fetch records by metadata](./database-2026-07-data-plane-fetch-by-metadata.md)
- [Update a record](./database-2026-07-data-plane-update.md)
- [Delete records](./database-2026-07-data-plane-delete.md)
- [List record IDs](./database-2026-07-data-plane-list.md)
- [Search with a vector](./database-2026-04-data-plane-query.md)

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