# Get articles

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/help/get-help-articles-by-slug

> Returns one public article by slug, with its body.

`GET /v1/help/articles/{slug}`

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|               |                                                |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/help/articles/{slug}` |
| **Method**    | `GET`                                          |
| **Operation** | `get_help_articles_by_slug`                    |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`         |

Returns one public article by slug, with its body. A missing, Draft,
or internal (non-public) article is 404 — fail-closed, so this route is no
existence oracle for anything beyond "published and public".

## Request

1 field.

| Field  | In   | Type   | Required | Description                                             |
| ------ | ---- | ------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| `slug` | path | string | yes      | Slug is the article's public identifier, from the path. |

## Response

| Status    | Body             | Meaning |
| --------- | ---------------- | ------- |
| `200`     | help.helpArticle | ok      |
| `default` | problem-details  | refused |

`200` body — 6 fields.

| Field       | In   | Type            | Always | Description                                                                                                   |
| ----------- | ---- | --------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `body`      | body | string          | —      | Body is the article's rich-text content as the author saved it.                                               |
| `category`  | body | string          | —      | Category is the name of the knowledge-base section the article sits in, or empty when it is filed under none. |
| `excerpt`   | body | string          | —      | Excerpt is the short summary the author wrote for listings, or empty.                                         |
| `slug`      | body | string          | —      | Slug is the article's stable public identifier — the path segment it was addressed by.                        |
| `title`     | body | string          | —      | Title is the article's headline.                                                                              |
| `updatedAt` | body | integer (int64) | —      | UpdatedAt is the unix second the article was last written.                                                    |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo help articles get <slug>
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, HelpApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new HelpApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.getHelpArticlesBySlug({ slug: 'slug' });
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import HelpApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = HelpApi(client).get_help_articles_by_slug(slug='slug')
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.HelpAPI.GetHelpArticlesBySlug(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, help_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = help_api::get_help_articles_by_slug(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.HelpApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new HelpApi(client).getHelpArticlesBySlug();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/help/articles/<slug> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY"
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **help** through the `help` tool, which names its 4 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_help_articles"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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