---
title: "API_GetDBPage"
slug: "api-getdbpage"
updated: 2025-08-18T09:19:01Z
published: 2025-08-18T09:19:01Z
canonical: "help.quickbase.com/api-getdbpage"
---

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# API_GetDBPage

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## Overview

Use API_GetDBPage to retrieve a stored page in Quickbase. Quickbase allows you to store various types of pages, ranging from user-guide pages for your application to Exact Forms, used to automate insertion of data into Word documents using a special Word template from Quickbase. (See the [Quickbase online help](/v1/docs/create-code-pages) for more information about DB pages.)

## Request parameters

| Parameter | Value | Required? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| pageID | The ID of the page. You can also use the pagename. | yes |
| ticket | A valid authentication ticket. The authentication ticket is returned via the API_Authenticate call. | yes, one of: - ticket - username/password - user token |
| usertoken | The user token is an alternative means of authentication, used for API access. User tokens cannot be used to access the Quickbase UI. | yes, one of: - ticket - username/password - user token |
| apptoken | A valid application token. | yes, if the application requires application tokens |
| udata | A string value that you want returned. It will not be handled by Quickbase but it will be returned in the response. | no |

## Response values

The requested page is returned in HTML.

## XML Request

```xml
POST https://target_domain/db/target_dbid 
 HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length:
QUICKBASE-ACTION: API_GetDBPage

<qdbapi>
   <udata>mydata</udata>
   <ticket>auth_ticket</ticket>
   <apptoken>app_token</apptoken>
   <pageID>3</pageID>
</qdbapi>
```

## URL alternative

```plaintext
https://target_domain/db/target_dbid?a=API_GetDBPage&pageid=18
&ticket=auth_ticket&apptoken=app_token
```

where *target_domain* is the domain against which you are invoking this call, for example, *quickbase.com*. [Read about this notation](/v1/docs/understanding-the-api-call-reference).