## Get a chat

**get** `/v1/chats/{chat}`

Reads one chat, including its live customer-window state. A chat id that
is not this key's answers `404` — the same answer an id that does not
exist gets, because a response must never confirm one across accounts.

### Path Parameters

- `chat: string`

### Returns

- `Chat object { id, created_at, customer, 4 more }`

  One customer conversation.

  - `id: string`

    The chat's id.

  - `created_at: string`

  - `customer: string`

    Customer address as an opaque identifier.

  - `customer_window: object { expires_at, state, source }`

    The customer service window — first-class state on every chat read. Only
    `template` parts are sendable while it is closed.

    - `expires_at: string`

      When the open window expires. `null` when no window has ever opened.

    - `state: string`

      `open` or `closed`.

    - `source: optional string`

      What opened the current window: `customer_message`, or `free_entry_point` for ad-sourced windows. Absent when no window has ever opened.

  - `phone_number_id: string`

    The id of the sending number this chat is pinned to.

  - `updated_at: string`

    When the chat last changed — a new event moves it.

  - `from: optional string`

    The number this conversation sends from, in E.164 (leading `+`). This is
    the value to pass back as a send's `from` to address this exact
    conversation. Absent only if the number is no longer one of yours.

### Example

```http
curl https://whatsapp.messages.api.linqapp.com/v1/chats/$CHAT \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $LINQ_WHATSAPP_API_KEY"
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "id": "id",
  "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "customer": "customer",
  "customer_window": {
    "expires_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
    "state": "state",
    "source": "source"
  },
  "phone_number_id": "phone_number_id",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "from": "from"
}
```