# Get one language of a version `GET /v1/email/templates/{template_ref}/versions/{version_id}/languages/{language}` Returns one language's content from a version (its subject and bodies) plus the `revision` to send back when saving it. Works on any version, including a published version whose content is frozen. Returns a `404 Not Found` error if the version does not have the language. ## Code samples ### CLI ```sh bird email templates versions languages get ``` ### cURL ```sh curl -X GET "https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/email/templates/{template_ref}/versions/{version_id}/languages/{language}" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" ``` ## Example response `200` ```json { "language": "pt-BR", "content_hash": "sha256:9f86d081884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08", "content": { "subject": "Welcome to Acme, {{ bird.contact.first_name }}!", "preview_text": "{{ bird.contact.first_name }}, your order is on its way", "html": "

Hi {{ bird.contact.first_name }}

" }, "compatibility_severity": "warning", "compatibility": [ { "rule_id": "css_display_flex_grid", "severity": "warning", "language": "pt-BR", "field": "html", "message": "`display: flex` and `grid` don't work in Outlook (Windows/Windows Mail).", "fix": "Use tables for layout.", "partial": "Partial support for `display: flex` and `grid` in Gmail (iOS/Android).", "line": 14, "column": 6, "match": "display: flex", "unsupported_clients": [ { "family": "outlook", "platforms": [ "windows", "windows_mail" ] } ], "partial_clients": [ { "family": "outlook", "platforms": [ "windows", "windows_mail" ] } ] } ] } ``` ## Path parameters - `template_ref` (string): The template's id (`emt_…`) or slug. On read, a built-in `system` template's `bird_` slug also resolves here. Writing or removing a language requires a workspace template, because a `system` template has no draft to edit and returns `404` `not_found_error`. - `version_id` (string) - `language` (string) ## Response body - `language` (string, required): The language this content belongs to, in its canonical form. Send a tag in any casing and this reports the form the template stores. - `revision` (integer, required): This language's revision counter. Send it back when you save this language so a concurrent edit is caught instead of silently overwritten. It counts only this language's own changes, so editing another language never invalidates it. - `content_hash` (nullable string): A hash over this language's content, prefixed with the algorithm that produced it (`sha256:`), so the algorithm can change without the field becoming ambiguous. It tells you whether a language differs without transferring the content, and is comparable only within one version of this API. Null for a language saved before fingerprints were recorded. - `updated_at` (nullable string): When this language was last saved. Null if that is not recorded. - `content` (object): One language's content for an email template. Each language carries its own subject, preview text and bodies, so a translation can differ in wording and length from every other language without affecting them. - `content.subject` (string): The email subject line for this language. - `content.preview_text` (string): The line an inbox shows after the subject in the message list, for this language. Leave it out and the inbox shows the opening words of the body instead. A mail client only reads it from the message body, so publishing folds it into the top of the HTML, hidden from view once the message is open; write it here rather than hiding your own copy in the body. - `content.html` (string): The HTML body for this language. - `content.text` (string): The plain-text body for this language. Omit it and a plain-text alternative is derived from the HTML when you submit. - `compatibility_severity` (string, required) The worst severity across every finding the response was computed from, which is the authoritative reading: a response that caps how many findings it lists still accounts here for the ones it left out. Each response's `compatibility` says which content it covered. - `problem`: at least one finding is a `problem`. - `warning`: every finding is a `warning`. - `none`: there are no findings. Possible values: `problem`, `warning`, `none` - `compatibility` (array of object, required): What the stored HTML uses that mail clients remove, ignore, or render inconsistently, in the order the patterns appear. Empty when nothing is worth reporting. Line and column count in the `content.html` this response carries. At most 200 findings come back, the first 200 in source order; `compatibility_severity` is derived from every finding the HTML produced, including any beyond those 200. - `compatibility.rule_id` (string, required) The rule that produced this finding. Possible values (may grow over time): `html_script`, `html_event_handlers`, `html_embedded_content`, `html_linked_stylesheet`, `css_at_import`, `html_form`, `html_svg`, `html_media`, `css_display_flex_grid`, `css_position_fixed_sticky`, `css_variables_no_fallback`, `css_viewport_units`, `html_button`, `css_math_functions`, `css_modern_color`, `html_web_page_markup` - `compatibility.severity` (string, required) What a finding costs you. - `problem`: the pattern does nothing at all. The client removes the markup, never loads the stylesheet carrying it, or will not operate the control. Where a finding names clients, that is what happens in those clients. - `warning`: it does something, but not what you wrote. Neither one refuses a save, a submit, or a send. Possible values: `problem`, `warning` - `compatibility.language` (nullable string, required): Which language's content this finding is in. Null when the call covered a single language. - `compatibility.field` (string, required): Which field of that language the finding is in. Always `html`; the subject and the plain-text body are not checked. - `compatibility.message` (string, required): What is wrong and which clients it affects, worded to show to whoever is authoring the template. It covers the rule's whole category rather than the exact text that matched, so a rule covering `