# GetRepository
Returns information about a repository.
**Note**
The description field for a repository accepts all HTML characters and all valid Unicode characters. Applications that do not HTML-encode the description and display it in a webpage can expose users to potentially malicious code. Make sure that you HTML-encode the description field in any application that uses this API to display the repository description on a webpage.
## Request Syntax
```
{
"repositoryName": "string"
}
```
## Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
** [repositoryName](#API_GetRepository_RequestSyntax) **
The name of the repository to get information about.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.
Pattern: `[\w\.-]+`
Required: Yes
## Response Syntax
```
{
"repositoryMetadata": {
"accountId": "string",
"Arn": "string",
"cloneUrlHttp": "string",
"cloneUrlSsh": "string",
"creationDate": number,
"defaultBranch": "string",
"kmsKeyId": "string",
"lastModifiedDate": number,
"repositoryDescription": "string",
"repositoryId": "string",
"repositoryName": "string"
}
}
```
## Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
** [repositoryMetadata](#API_GetRepository_ResponseSyntax) **
Information about the repository.
Type: [RepositoryMetadata](API_RepositoryMetadata.md) object
## Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).
** EncryptionIntegrityChecksFailedException **
An encryption integrity check failed.
HTTP Status Code: 500
** EncryptionKeyAccessDeniedException **
An encryption key could not be accessed.
HTTP Status Code: 400
** EncryptionKeyDisabledException **
The encryption key is disabled.
HTTP Status Code: 400
** EncryptionKeyNotFoundException **
No encryption key was found.
HTTP Status Code: 400
** EncryptionKeyUnavailableException **
The encryption key is not available.
HTTP Status Code: 400
** InvalidRepositoryNameException **
A specified repository name is not valid.
This exception occurs only when a specified repository name is not valid. Other exceptions occur when a required repository parameter is missing, or when a specified repository does not exist.
HTTP Status Code: 400
** RepositoryDoesNotExistException **
The specified repository does not exist.
HTTP Status Code: 400
** RepositoryNameRequiredException **
A repository name is required, but was not specified.
HTTP Status Code: 400
## Examples
### Example
This example illustrates one usage of GetRepository.
#### Sample Request
```
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 33
X-Amz-Target: CodeCommit_20150413.GetRepository
X-Amz-Date: 20151028T225711Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.7.38 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE/20151028/us-east-1/codecommit/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=8d9b5998EXAMPLE
{
"repositoryName": "MyDemoRepo"
}
```
#### Sample Response
```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: 0728aaa8-EXAMPLE
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 516
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:57:13 GMT
{
"repositoryMetadata": {
"creationDate": 1429203623.625,
"defaultBranch": "main",
"repositoryName": "MyDemoRepo",
"cloneUrlSsh": "ssh://git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/repos//v1/repos/MyDemoRepo",
"lastModifiedDate": 1430783812.0869999,
"repositoryDescription": "My demonstration repository",
"cloneUrlHttp": "https://codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/repos/MyDemoRepo",
"defaultBranch": "main",
"kmsKeyId": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111",
"repositoryId": "f7579e13-b83e-4027-aaef-650c0EXAMPLE",
"Arn": "arn:aws:codecommit:us-east-1:123456789012EXAMPLE:MyDemoRepo
"accountId": "123456789012"
}
}
```
## See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+ [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)
+ [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/codecommit-2015-04-13/GetRepository)