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Get transaction
curl --request GET \
  --url https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/transactions/{id} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>'
import requests

url = "https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/transactions/{id}"

headers = {"X-API-Key": "<api-key>"}

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

print(response.text)
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/transactions/{id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/transactions/{id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"X-API-Key: <api-key>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

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

func main() {

url := "https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/transactions/{id}"

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

req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")

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

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

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/transactions/{id}")
.header("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://breadbox.example.com/api/v1/transactions/{id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "short_id": "<string>",
  "account_id": "<string>",
  "connection_id": "<string>",
  "attributed_user_id": "<string>",
  "date": "2023-12-25",
  "authorized_date": "2023-12-25",
  "amount": "<string>",
  "iso_currency_code": "<string>",
  "name": "<string>",
  "merchant_name": "<string>",
  "counterparty_short_id": "<string>",
  "counterparty_name": "<string>",
  "counterparty_logo_url": "<string>",
  "category_id": "<string>",
  "pending": true,
  "deleted_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "tags": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "metadata": {},
  "flagged_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
{
"error": {
"code": "<string>",
"message": "<string>"
}
}

Authorizations

X-API-Key
string
header
required

Breadbox API key with format bb_<base62>. Carries either read_only or full_access scope. Write endpoints (and a handful of sensitive reads — /api-keys, /users/{user_id}/login) require full_access; endpoints that require it are flagged in their description.

Path Parameters

id
string
required

UUID or 8-char short_id.

Query Parameters

fields
string

Comma-separated field selector. Accepts column names and aliases (minimal, core, category, timestamps, triage, review_core, transaction_core). id and short_id are always included.

Response

Transaction.

id
string<uuid>
short_id
string
account_id
string
connection_id
string | null
attributed_user_id
string | null
date
string<date>
authorized_date
string<date> | null
amount
string

Decimal as string. Positive = money out, negative = money in.

iso_currency_code
string
name
string
merchant_name
string | null
counterparty_short_id
string | null

short_id of the assigned counterparty (the other side of the transaction), null when unassigned.

counterparty_name
string | null

Preferred display name when a counterparty is assigned; falls back to merchant_name then name.

counterparty_logo_url
string | null

Counterparty logo URL; null until enrichment populates it.

category_id
string | null
pending
boolean
deleted_at
string<date-time> | null
tags
string[]

Tag slug.

metadata
object

Free-form JSONB enrichment store. Always an object (empty {} when unset).

flagged_at
string<date-time> | null

When the transaction was flagged for human attention; null when not flagged. The reason lives in a comment annotation.

created_at
string<date-time>
updated_at
string<date-time>
Last modified on June 25, 2026