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Get a role ​

GET/api/v2/workspaces/{slug}/roles/{pk}/

Roles are the named permission levels a member can hold. Read a single role by id.

Path Parameters ​

slug:requiredstring

The workspace slug. It appears in your Plane URLs — in https://app.plane.so/my-team/projects/, the slug is my-team.

pk:requiredstring (uuid)

The role id.

Response shaping ​

fields:optionalstring

Comma-separated list of fields to return. Unrequested keys are omitted, not returned as null. id always comes back. Pass all for every requestable field. An unknown name is a 400. See Sparse fields.

Requestable here: description, id, is_system, level, name, namespace, slug, status.

Scopes ​

workspaces.roles:read

Errors ​

StatusCodeCause
401unauthorizedMissing or invalid credentials.
402payment_requiredThe feature this endpoint belongs to isn't enabled on your plan or is switched off.
403forbiddenYour role or token scope doesn't allow this.
404not_foundNo such resource, or it's outside your tenant.
406not_acceptableThe Accept header asks for a representation the API can't produce.
429rate_limitedThrottled. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying.
Get a role
bash
curl -X GET \
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/roles/9c1f0b3d-6d2e-4c9a-8b41-2f7e5a0d6c88/" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY"
Response200
json
{
  "description": "What this is for.",
  "id": "b7e42a19-3c5d-4f80-9a26-8d1c0f4e7b53",
  "is_system": false,
  "level": 1,
  "name": "Example name",
  "namespace": null,
  "slug": "my-team",
  "status": "active"
}
Response404
json
{
  "type": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "detail": "No role matches the given query."
}