# Get a set

> One set by code, slug or alternate id.

- **Endpoint**: `GET /v1/sets/{code}`
- **Cost**: 1 credit
- **Minimum plan**: free
- **Cache-Control**: `public, max-age=60, s-maxage=300, stale-while-revalidate=600`

Source: https://pokemontcgapi.com/docs/api/sets/get

`id` on a set object is the code, not an internal UUID. Set ids are short strings like `bs` and `sv3` — human-readable, guessable, and the form most catalogues already store — so exposing a UUID here would make every id you already hold useless.

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `code` **required** | string | — | Set code (`bs`), slug (`base`) or alternate id (`base1`). All three resolve, because whatever you have stored is one of them and you should not have to work out which. |

## Headers

| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `X-Api-Key` **required** | string | — | Your API key. `Authorization: Bearer <key>` is accepted as an alias. |
| `If-None-Match` | string | — | Send back the `ETag` you stored. The API returns a strong ETag on every catalogue response, and a 304 is a header exchange: no body, no database row read. |

## Example request

**curl**

```bash
curl -s "https://api.pokemontcgapi.com/v1/sets/bs" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PTCG_API_KEY"
```

**TypeScript**

`request.ts`

```ts
const url = new URL("https://api.pokemontcgapi.com/v1/sets/bs");

const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.PTCG_API_KEY ?? "" },
});

if (!res.ok) {
  const { error } = await res.json();
  throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message} (${error.request_id})`);
}

const { data, meta } = await res.json();
```

**Python**

`request.py`

```python
import os, httpx

res = httpx.get(
    "https://api.pokemontcgapi.com/v1/sets/bs",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": os.environ["PTCG_API_KEY"]},
)
res.raise_for_status()
payload = res.json()
```

## Example response

`200 OK` · `Cache-Control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=300, stale-while-revalidate=600`

`response.json`

```json
{
  "id": "bs",
  "code": "bs",
  "slug": "base",
  "legacy_id": "base1",
  "name": "Base",
  "series": "Base",
  "region": "WEST",
  "release_date": "1999-01-09",
  "total": 134,
  "printed_total": 102,
  "ptcgo_code": "BS",
  "symbol_url": null,
  "logo_url": "https://media.rarebit.app/sets/BASE/logo-normal.webp",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-26T17:47:39.900Z"
}
```

## Errors

Every error body carries `error.code`, `error.message` and `error.request_id`. Switch on the code, never on the message.

| Status | Code | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | `MISSING_API_KEY` | No `X-Api-Key` header and no bearer token on a route that requires one. |
| 401 | `INVALID_API_KEY` | The key does not match any account. |
| 404 | `SET_NOT_FOUND` | No set with that code, slug or alternate id. |

The full taxonomy, with what to do about each code, is on the [errors](https://pokemontcgapi.com/docs/errors) page.