curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agents/agent-id/versions/version-id' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# GET /v1/convai/agents/{agent_id}/versions/{version_id} (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Get Agent Version Metadata

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agents/agent-id/versions/version-id' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| agent_id | path | string | Yes | The id of an agent. This is returned on agent creation. |
| version_id | path | string | Yes | Unique identifier for the version. |

## Response (200 OK)
{"id":"string","agent_id":"string"}

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GET /v1/convai/agents/{agent_id}/versions/{version_id} — ElevenLabs API

ElevenLabs API

Get Agent Version Metadata

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agents/agent-id/versions/version-id' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
agent_id	path	string	Yes	The id of an agent. This is returned on agent creation.
version_id	path	string	Yes	Unique identifier for the version.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "agent_id": "string",
  "branch_id": "string",
  "version_description": "string",
  "seq_no_in_branch": 0,
  "time_committed_secs": 0,
  "parents": {
    "in_branch_parent_id": "string",
    "out_of_branch_parent_id": "string",
    "merged_into_branch_id": "string",
    "merged_from_branch_id": "string",
    "merged_from_version_id": "string",
    "rebased_from_version_id": "string"
  },
  "access_info": {
    "access_source": "creator",
    "creator_email": "[email protected]",
    "creator_name": "John Doe",
    "is_creator": true,
    "role": "admin"
  },
  "merged_authors": [
    {
      "access_source": "creator",
      "creator_email": "[email protected]",
      "creator_name": "John Doe",
      "is_creator": true,
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
}

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