---
title: "Retrieve an audience"
description: "The same shape as a list row, with a fresh `contactCount`. This is the cheap way to watch a count move without pulling the contacts behind it."
url: "https://openemail.uk/docs/api/audiences/get"
area: "API"
category: "Mailbox"
---

# Retrieve an audience

The same shape as a list row, with a fresh `contactCount`. This is the cheap way to watch a count move without pulling the contacts behind it.

`GET /audiences/{id}`

## GET /audiences/{id}

The same shape as a list row, with a fresh `contactCount`. This is the cheap way to watch a count move without pulling the contacts behind it.

## Example

Needs `audiences:read`.

**curl**

```
curl "$OE/audiences/aud_4c1b8e2a7d9f05c36b4e8a71" -H "$AUTH"
```

**Response**

```
{
  "object": "audience",
  "id": "aud_4c1b8e2a7d9f05c36b4e8a71",
  "name": "Product updates",
  "description": "Customers who asked to hear about releases",
  "builtin": null,
  "contactCount": 3,
  "createdAt": "2026-09-18T09:10:00.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-18T09:10:00.000Z"
}
```

> An id from another workspace is a `404` rather than a `403`. The API never tells you that something exists somewhere you cannot see.

> The default audience reads here like any other, and `builtin` is `default` on it.