```bash curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
ASSISTANT_NAME="example-assistant"
FILE_ID="3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"

# Describe a file.
# To get a signed URL in the response, set `include_url` to `true`.
curl -X GET "https://prod-1-data.ke.pinecone.io/assistant/files/$ASSISTANT_NAME/$FILE_ID?include_url=true" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-04"
```

`GET /files/{assistant_name}/{assistant_file_id}`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request GET \
  --url https://{assistant_host}/files/{assistant_name}/{assistant_file_id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

```json title="200"
{
  "name": "<string>",
  "id": "<string>",
  "size": 1048576,
  "metadata": {
    "created_by": "Jane Doe",
    "published": "2025-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "tags": [
      "report",
      "Q4",
      "analytics"
    ]
  },
  "created_on": "2025-10-01T12:30:00.000Z",
  "updated_on": "2025-10-01T12:45:00.000Z",
  "status": "<string>",
  "signed_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/bucket/file.pdf?...",
  "multimodal": true
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

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

## Path Parameters

- `assistant_name` (path, string, required) — The name of the assistant that contains the file.
- `assistant_file_id` (path, string, required) — The identifier of the file to be described.

## Query Parameters

- `include_url` (query, string) — Include the signed URL of the file in the response.

## Headers

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

## Response

- `200` — Poll request successful.
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
- `404` — File not found.
- `500` — Internal server error.

## Related pages

- [Account management](./account-management-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-2-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Architecture](./architecture-index.md)
- [Assistants](./assistants-index.md)
- [Bring Your Own Cloud](./bring-your-own-cloud-index.md)
- [Build an assistant](./build-an-assistant-index.md)
- [Build an integration](./build-an-integration-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)

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