Get an environment variable

GET/v1/environment-variables/{envVarId}Get an environment variable

⚠️ Experimental endpoint: this API is in active development and may change at any time without notice. ⚠️

Returns a single environment variable's metadata. The value is not returned.

Parameters

envVarIdstringpathrequired

pattern ^(envvar_)?([cC][^\s-]{8,}|[a-z0-9]+)$

Responses

object

dataobjectrequired

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branchIdnull | stringrequired

classstringrequired

one of "production", "preview"

createdAtstring · date-timerequired

idstringrequired

isManagedBySystembooleanrequired

keystringrequired

projectIdstringrequired

typestringrequired

const "environment-variable"

updatedAtstring · date-timerequired

urlstring · urirequired

valueKidstringrequired

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "branchId": "string",
    "class": "preview",
    "createdAt": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z",
    "id": "string",
    "isManagedBySystem": true,
    "key": "string",
    "projectId": "string",
    "type": "environment-variable",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z",
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "valueKid": "string"
  }
}

object

errorobjectrequired

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codestringrequired

hintstring

messagestringrequired

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "hint": "string",
    "message": "string"
  }
}

object

errorobjectrequired

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codestringrequired

hintstring

messagestringrequired

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "hint": "string",
    "message": "string"
  }
}

object

errorobjectrequired

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codestringrequired

hintstring

messagestringrequired

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "hint": "string",
    "message": "string"
  }
}

Examples

envVarIdrequiredpath parameter

curl -X GET 'https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string'

const response = await fetch('https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string', { method: 'GET' });
const data = await response.json();

const response = await fetch('https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string', { method: 'GET' });
console.log(await response.json());

import requests

response = requests.request("GET", "https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string")
print(response.json())

package main

import (
	"context"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "GET", "https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string", nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
}

<?php
$request = curl_init("https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
$response = curl_exec($request);
curl_close($request);

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string"))
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

require 'net/http'

uri = URI("https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string")
request = Net::HTTPGenericRequest.new("GET", false, true, uri)
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "https://api.prisma.io/v1/environment-variables/string");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);

{
  "data": {
    "branchId": "string",
    "class": "preview",
    "createdAt": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z",
    "id": "string",
    "isManagedBySystem": true,
    "key": "string",
    "projectId": "string",
    "type": "environment-variable",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z",
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "valueKid": "string"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "hint": "string",
    "message": "string"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "hint": "string",
    "message": "string"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "hint": "string",
    "message": "string"
  }
}

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