# GET List: Get a List of Profiles
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## HTTP Request and Response
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### Request URL
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```
GET http://<Conductor IP address>/profiles
```

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

### Response
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The response contains XML content consisting of one `profiles` element with the following. 
+ An HREF attribute that specifies the product and version installed on the Conductor Live node.
+ Zero or more `profile` elements, one for each profile found. Each element contains several elements, including these key elements. For details on other elements, see [Recommended Method for Working with Profiles](recommended-method-working-with-profiles.md).


| Element | Value | Description | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| id | Integer | The ID for this profile, assigned by the system when the profile is created. | 
| name | String | The name that you assigned to the profile. | 
| permalink | String | The ID of the node, assigned by the system. For profiles, the ID is a string (not an integer) and is created by taking the name you assigned, converting it to lower case, and changing spaces and illegal characters to underscores. | 

## Example
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The response to this request specifies that there are three profiles set up in the cluster. 

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<profiles href="/profiles" product="AWS Elemental Conductor Live" version="3.3.nnnnn">
<profile href="/profiles/1">
  <id>1</id>
  <name>Profile A</name>
  <permalink>profile_a</permalink>
  <description></description>
  <input>
.
.
.
</profile>
<profile href="/profiles/4">
  <id>4</id>
  <name>Profile C</name>
  <permalink>profile_c</permalink>
  <description></description>
  <input>
.
.
.
</profile>
<profile href="/profiles/5">
  <id>5</id>
  <name>Profile D</name>
  <permalink>profile_d</permalink>
  <description></description>
  <input>
.
.
</profile>
</profile_list>
```