---
title: Get event taxonomy entry
description: Get event taxonomy entry
product: general
lang: en
last_updated: 2026-09-15
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---
# Get event taxonomy entry

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## Get event taxonomy entry

**GET** `/v1/projects/{project_id}/events/{event_id}`

Full URL: `https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/{project_id}/events/{event_id}`

**Servers:**
- Production (US): `https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/{project_id}/events/{event_id}`
- Production (EU): `https://developer-api.eu.amplitude.com/v1/projects/{project_id}/events/{event_id}`

Get event taxonomy entry

## Authorizations

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Authorization | string | Yes | — | http |

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| project_id (path) | string | Yes | 12345 | Amplitude project identifier, backed by the canonical app ID. Constraints: pattern: ^[0-9]+$ |
| event_id (path) | string | Yes | — | Public event identifier. This value is the event type name (the string used when sending the event to Amplitude). Constraints: min length: 1 |

## Response (application/json)

**200** — Successful response.

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| data | object | Yes | — | — |
| data.id | string | Yes | — | Canonical event identifier. Equal to `event_type`. |
| data.object | string | Yes | — | Resource-type discriminator. Always `event`. |
| data.project_id | string | Yes | — | Constraints: pattern: ^[0-9]+$ |
| data.event_type | string | Yes | — | — |
| data.display_name | string | Yes | — | — |
| data.description | string | No | — | Constraints: nullable |
| data.is_active | boolean | Yes | — | — |

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "string",
    "object": "event",
    "project_id": "string",
    "event_type": "string",
    "display_name": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "is_active": true
  }
}
```

**401**

**403**

**404**

**429**

**500**

## Code samples

### cURL

```bash
curl -X GET "https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/12345/events/{event_id}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY"
```

### Python

```python
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/12345/events/{event_id}",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
)
data = response.json()
```

### JavaScript

```javascript
const response = await fetch("https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/12345/events/{event_id}", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
const data = await response.json();
```

### PHP

```php
<?php
$ch = curl_init("https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/12345/events/{event_id}");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY"
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
```

### Go

```go
package main

import (
  "bytes"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/12345/events/{event_id}", nil)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "YOUR_API_KEY")
  client := &http.Client{}
  resp, _ := client.Do(req)
  defer resp.Body.Close()
}
```

### Java

```java
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
      .uri(URI.create("https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/12345/events/{event_id}"))
      .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
      .header("Authorization", "YOUR_API_KEY")
      .build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
```

### Ruby

```ruby
require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://developer-api.amplitude.com/v1/projects/12345/events/{event_id}")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request["Authorization"] = "YOUR_API_KEY"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") do |http|
  http.request(request)
end
```