# Retrieve a Recording Use this endpoint for the [Recordings](./index.mdx) method to retrieve a single recording media or its metadata. Direct external access to recording files is useful for many external applications, so they are public and do not require Basic Auth to access. This allows external applications to embed recording URLs without exposing their SignalWire API credentials. SignalWire recording URLs are long and random, making them difficult to guess or exploit unless you reveal the URL. ## Recording File Types ### WAV When a recording URI has no extension or a .wav extension, the request will return a binary WAV version of the recording file. GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid} ### MP3 Setting an extension of .mp3 on the URI returns a binary MP3 version of the recording. For example: GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}.mp3 ### Metadata A recordings metadata, such as duration, cost, time, can be returned by setting the Recording URIs extension to .json. For example: GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}.json ## Parameters | Parameter | |:-| | No Parameters | ## Request Retrieve a Recordings meta data 200 OK
json { api_version: 2010-04-01, channels: 1, date_created: Tue, 25 Sept 2018 23:00:00 +0000, date_updated: Wed, 26 Sept 2018 23:00:04 +0000, start_time: Tue, 25 Sept 2018 23:00:00 +0000, end_time: Wed, 26 Sept 2018 23:00:04 +0000, price: -0.0025, price_unit: USD, duration: 4, source: StartConferenceRecordingAPI, status: completed, error_code: null, uri: /api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/720796a0-8ee9-4350-83bd-2d07a3121f1e/Conferences/2071320d-ee82-4578-84e0-379fb227eb77/Recordings/19e436af-5688-4307-b03b-bdb2b42b8142.json, subresource_uris: { transcriptions: /api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/720796a0-8ee9-4350-83bd-2d07a3121f1e/Recordings/19e436af-5688-4307-b03b-bdb2b42b8142/Transcriptions.json } }