# GET: Get the Attributes of a Channel
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Get the attributes of the specified channel.

## HTTP Request and Response
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### Request URL
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```
GET http://<Conductor IP address>/channels/<ID of channel>?metacounts=true
```

where:
+ ?metacounts=true is optional but adds additional information to the response.

### Response
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The response contains XML content consisting of one `channel` element with the same elements as the response for GET Channel List, above.

### Call Header
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+ Accept: Set to application/xml

If you are implementing user authentication, you must also include three authorization headers; see [Header Content for User Authentication](header-content-user.md).

## Example
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This response shows the information for the channel with the ID 1. 

```
GET http://198.51.100.0/channels/1
----------------------------------------
Content-type:application/xml
----------------------------------------
<channel href="/channels/1" product="AWS Elemental Conductor Live" version="3.3.nnnnn">
  <id>1</id>
  <name>Channel A</name>
  <profile_id>2</profile_id>
  <channel_params type="array">
    <channel_param>
      <name>input network location</name>
      <value>udp://239.255.1.10:5001</value>
    </channel_param>
  </channel_params>
  <node_id>3</node_id>
    <permalink_name>Mendis_News_Channel/permalink_name>
    <service_name>MendisNewsChannel</service_name>
    <service_provider_name>MendisNetworks</service_provider_name>
    <status>running</status>
    <active_alerts>2</active_alerts>
    <recent_error_messages>0</recent_error_messages>
</channel>
```

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Elemental Conductor Live 3. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query elemental-cl3` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).