Get a document

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.vaquill.ai/workspace/v1/matters/{matterId}/documents/{documentId} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

url = "https://api.vaquill.ai/workspace/v1/matters/{matterId}/documents/{documentId}"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.vaquill.ai/workspace/v1/matters/{matterId}/documents/{documentId}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.vaquill.ai/workspace/v1/matters/{matterId}/documents/{documentId}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

{
  "id": "doc_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "matterId": "mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "folderId": "fld_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "filename": "msa-acme-v3.docx",
  "contentType": "application/pdf",
  "fileSize": 248193,
  "pageCount": 14,
  "chunkCount": 37,
  "sourceType": "api",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "isEncrypted": false,
  "createdAt": "2026-08-19T14:32:10Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-19T14:32:10Z",
  "processedAt": "2026-08-19T14:32:10Z"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "errors": [
    {
      "location": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

GET

matters

{matterId}

documents

{documentId}

Get a document

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.vaquill.ai/workspace/v1/matters/{matterId}/documents/{documentId} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

url = "https://api.vaquill.ai/workspace/v1/matters/{matterId}/documents/{documentId}"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.vaquill.ai/workspace/v1/matters/{matterId}/documents/{documentId}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.vaquill.ai/workspace/v1/matters/{matterId}/documents/{documentId}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

{
  "id": "doc_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "matterId": "mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "folderId": "fld_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "filename": "msa-acme-v3.docx",
  "contentType": "application/pdf",
  "fileSize": 248193,
  "pageCount": 14,
  "chunkCount": 37,
  "sourceType": "api",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "isEncrypted": false,
  "createdAt": "2026-08-19T14:32:10Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-19T14:32:10Z",
  "processedAt": "2026-08-19T14:32:10Z"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "errors": [
    {
      "location": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

{
  "type": "https://vaquill.ai/docs/workspace-api/errors/insufficient-scope",
  "title": "Insufficient scope",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "This credential carries matters:read. This operation needs matters:write.",
  "instance": "/workspace/v1/matters/mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6",
  "requestId": "req_5f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Workspace credential issued from the automation console at /automation. Send it as Authorization: Bearer vq_ws_.... This is NOT a Data API key: a vq_key_ credential is refused here and names the other product in the error.

Path Parameters

matterId

string

required

mat_ identifier of the matter to work inside. Everything in this API hangs off a matter, and the matter in the path is what the authorization boundary is checked against. Take it from GET /v1/matters.

documentId

string

required

doc_ identifier of the document. Take it from the matter's document list, or from the operation that completed its upload.

Response

Successful Response

One file in a matter, and how far its ingestion got.

status is the FIVE-value public vocabulary, not the four-label document_status Postgres enum. A document's status is the status of the job that ingested it, and publishing completed here beside succeeded on the operation that produced it would make a customer map two spellings of one event. adapters/status_map does the translation and refuses anything it has not been told about, so a new enum label fails loudly in CI rather than leaking a sixth value.

string

required

Public identifier, doc_ followed by 32 hex characters.

Example:

"doc_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"

matterId

string

required

mat_ identifier of the matter this document lives in.

Example:

"mat_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"

filename

string

required

Original filename as uploaded, including its extension.

Example:

"msa-acme-v3.docx"

status

enum<string>

required

Ingestion status, using the same five public values as an operation. Retrieval, drafting and review can only see the document once this is succeeded.

Available options:

queued,

running,

succeeded,

failed,

cancelled

Example:

"succeeded"

createdAt

string<date-time>

required

When the document row was created (RFC 3339).

Example:

"2026-08-19T14:32:10Z"

folderId

string | null

fld_ identifier of the folder it is filed under. Absent when unfiled.

Example:

"fld_9f2c8b1e4a7d43c9b6e0f1a2c3d4e5f6"

contentType

string | null

IANA media type detected at upload, for example application/pdf.

Example:

"application/pdf"

fileSize

integer | null

Size of the stored original in bytes.

Example:

248193

pageCount

integer | null

Pages the pipeline read. Absent or zero until ingestion has read the file. This is the number to size a review or matrix run against.

Example:

14

chunkCount

integer | null

How many retrieval chunks the document was split into. Absent until ingestion finishes.

Example:

37

sourceType

string | null

How the document entered the workspace. api for everything created through this surface; rows made in the web app carry upload, email, workflow or chat_artifact. Published as a plain string, so do not branch on it without a fallback.

Example:

"api"

isEncrypted

boolean

default:false

Whether the stored original is encrypted at rest with a per-document key. This is why downloads stream bytes rather than handing back a storage URL.

Example:

false

updatedAt

string<date-time> | null

When the document was last modified (RFC 3339).

Example:

"2026-08-19T14:32:10Z"

processedAt

string<date-time> | null

When ingestion finished (RFC 3339). Absent while the document is still processing.

Example:

"2026-08-19T14:32:10Z"

Last modified on August 23, 2026

Chronology

Research

Clients

Comparisons

Compliance

Documents

Drafting

Facts

Folders

Matrices

Matter summary

Matters

NDA triage

Operations

Playbooks

Reviews

Uploads

Workflows

Get a document

Authorizations

Path Parameters

Response