# Get Group By ID

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-group-by-id/330195
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 10, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-group-by-id/330195 "2024-10-10T03:55:47Z")
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### Author: ![BrainFried](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/brainfried/32/388499_2.png) [@BrainFried](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BrainFried)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-group-by-id/330195/1 "2024-10-10T03:55:47Z")

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I’m so curious the reasoning behind removing support for getting group by ID. I see in the docs that it use to exist at one point but now there’s only get group by name.

It seems most intuitive that a search-by-id function would be most necessary especially for an entity that requires a unique identifier. Search-by-slug is also useful too but I don’t understand why both wouldn’t be available.

I’ve seen a similar post on this but there wasn’t really an explanation provided.

Thanks

> [@Is there an api call to get a Group by id](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-an-api-call-to-get-a-group-by-id/122072):
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> I can see an api call to get a Group by name, but not one to get by id. With categories, you can get the category by id by calling /c/{id}/show, but I haven’t been able to find something similar for groups. I tried /g/{id}/show and /groups/{id}/show, but neither worked.