# GET /api/v2/labels/{label}

Read a label

- MCP id: labels.show
- Scope: api:read:project_management
- Permission: project_management::view_backlog
- Needs the sprints feature on your organisation
- Rate cost: 1 unit, read bucket.
- Cache-Control: private, max-age=60

Returns one label.

The summary and detail views are identical on this resource: every field is small enough for a list row, and nothing is includable, so `include` is rejected; follow `project_id` for the project. Reading additionally requires `project_management::manage_work_items`.

## Parameters
- label (integer, path): The Label's numeric id.
- view (string, optional): Which field set to render.
- X-Request-Id (header, optional): A correlation id of your own. It is recorded in our logs next to the server's request id but never returned: the response header always carries the server's id. A value that does not match the pattern is discarded silently, never rejected.
- If-None-Match (header, optional): The ETag a read is conditional on. A match is answered 304 with no body.

## Response 200
- id (integer, required): Unique identifier.
- project_id (integer, required): The project this label belongs to. Follow `GET /api/v2/projects/{project}` for its details; the project is not expandable from here.
- name (string ≤ 255, required): Label name as shown on the chip, e.g. `Blocked`.
- color (string ≤ 255, required): Six-digit hex colour, e.g. `#ef4444`. Stored verbatim: a row written before the colour picker enforced the format reads back as it is stored.
- icon (string or null ≤ 255, required): Icon name, e.g. `heroicon-o-tag`: not a URL and not markup. Null when the label has no icon.
- order (integer, required, server-assigned): Display position within the project. Assigned on create as the next position in that project's label order, changed only by dragging in plnnrly, and not writable.
- created_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Creation timestamp.
- updated_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Last-write timestamp; use for incremental sync.
- links (LabelLinks, required)
  - self (url, required): The canonical URI of this record.

## Errors
- 403 forbidden-by-policy | insufficient-permission | insufficient-token-scope: Forbidden.
- 304 : Not modified.
- 400 idempotency-key-required | invalid-cursor | invalid-query-parameter | malformed-request | unsupported-parameter: Bad request.
- 401 token-expired | unauthenticated: Unauthenticated.
- 404 endpoint-not-found | resource-not-found: Not found.
- 406 not-acceptable: Not acceptable.
- 429 rate-limit-exceeded: Too many requests.
- 500 internal-error: Server error.
- 503 tenant-unavailable: Service unavailable.

## Example
```bash
curl -X GET \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/labels/1' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'
```