# Retrieve a label by externalId

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Mindset v3 REST API reference: Labels.

**GET** `/api/v1/appuid/{appUid}/labels/externalId/{externalId}`

## Base URL

Requests go to your region's API host, for example `https://a.api.mindset.ai`. Hosts: `https://a.api.mindset.ai`, `https://b.api.mindset.ai`, `https://c.api.mindset.ai`, `https://d.api.mindset.ai`.

## Authorization

- `x-api-key` (string, required, header)

  Your API key.

## Path parameters

- `appUid` (string, required, path)

  Your application's uid

* `externalId` (string, required, path)

  Unique externalId of the label

## Responses

### 200

Successful retrieval

```json
{
  "uid": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "externalId": "string",
  "showInDiscovery": true,
  "createdAt": "string"
}
```

### 404

Label not found

## Example request

```bash
curl -X GET "https://a.api.mindset.ai/api/v1/appuid/{appUid}/labels/externalId/{externalId}" \
  -H "x-api-key: <your-api-key>"
```