tools/wave/docs/rest-api/devices-api/read-device.md

# `read device` - [Devices API](../README.md#devices-api)

The `read device` method of the devices API fetches available information regarding a 
specific device.

## HTTP Request

`GET /api/devices/<device_token>`

## Response Payload

```json
{
    "token": "<String>",
    "user_agent": "<String>",
    "last_active": "<String>",
    "name": "<String>"
}
```

- **token** is the unique identifier of the device.
- **user_agent** is the user agent of the request the device was registered with.
- **last_active** defines the point in time the device was last active. Expressed as ISO 8601 date and time format.
- **name** the name the device was assign based on its user agent.

## Example

**Request:**

`GET /api/devices/1d9f5d30-830f-11ea-8dcb-0021ccd76152`

**Response:**

```json
{
    "token": "1d9f5d30-830f-11ea-8dcb-0021ccd76152",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.113 Safari/537.36",
    "last_active": 1587391153295,
    "name": "Chrome 81.0.4044"
}
```