Get a cycle
Fetch one cycle by id. The response is the full cycle object, including the six progress counts that list rows leave out unless ?fields= names them. See Progress counts.
An archived cycle resolves here too, with archived_at set, even though the default list hides it.
Path Parameters
slug:requiredstringThe workspace slug. It appears in your Plane URLs. In https://app.plane.so/my-team/projects/, the slug is my-team.
project_id:requiredstring (uuid)The project the cycle belongs to. A cycle id from a different project returns 404, not the record.
pk:requiredstring (uuid)The cycle to retrieve.
Response shaping
fields:optionalstringComma-separated list of fields to return. Unrequested keys are omitted from the response, not returned as null, so absent means "not requested" and null means "actually null". id always comes back whether or not you name it.
Pass all for every requestable field. An unknown name is a 400 that lists the valid set and suggests the closest match, so a typo can't silently cost you the saving.
Requestable here: archived_at, backlog_issues, cancelled_issues, completed_issues, created_at, created_by_id, description, end_date, external_id, external_source, id, logo_props, name, owned_by_id, progress_snapshot, sort_order, start_date, started_issues, timezone, total_issues, unstarted_issues, updated_at, updated_by_id.
See Sparse fields.
expand:optionalstringComma-separated relations to embed alongside the ids: owned_by (the cycle owner).
Expansion is separate-key: ?expand=state keeps state_id and adds a state object next to it, so an id is never replaced by an object. An unknown value is a 400.
?fields= and ?expand= are independent namespaces. Relation names are not valid ?fields= tokens (and vice versa), and an expanded object survives field filtering — ?fields=id,name&expand=state returns id, name and state. See Expanding relations.
Scopes
projects.cycles:read
Errors
| Status | Code | Cause |
|---|---|---|
401 | unauthorized | Missing or invalid credentials. |
402 | payment_required | The feature this endpoint belongs to isn't enabled on your plan, or is switched off. |
403 | forbidden | Your role or token scope can't read cycles in this project. |
404 | not_found | No such cycle, wrong project, or the record is outside your tenant. |
406 | not_acceptable | The Accept header asks for a representation the API can't produce. |
429 | rate_limited | Throttled. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying. |
curl -X GET \
"https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/cycles/7c1f9a4e-3b6d-4a52-8f0c-2d9e6b18c3a7/" \
-H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/cycles/7c1f9a4e-3b6d-4a52-8f0c-2d9e6b18c3a7/",
headers={"X-Api-Key": "your-api-key"},
)
print(response.json())const response = await fetch(
"https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/cycles/7c1f9a4e-3b6d-4a52-8f0c-2d9e6b18c3a7/",
{
headers: { "X-Api-Key": "your-api-key" },
},
);
const data = await response.json();{
"id": "7c1f9a4e-3b6d-4a52-8f0c-2d9e6b18c3a7",
"name": "Sprint 24",
"description": "Checkout rewrite and billing cleanup",
"start_date": "2026-01-05T00:00:00Z",
"end_date": "2026-01-19T00:00:00Z",
"owned_by_id": "16c61a3a-512a-48ac-b0be-b6b46fe6f430",
"sort_order": 65535,
"timezone": "America/New_York",
"external_id": null,
"external_source": null,
"logo_props": {},
"total_issues": 24,
"backlog_issues": 3,
"unstarted_issues": 5,
"started_issues": 6,
"completed_issues": 9,
"cancelled_issues": 1,
"progress_snapshot": {},
"archived_at": null,
"created_at": "2026-01-14T09:22:41.478363Z",
"updated_at": "2026-01-14T09:22:41.478363Z",
"created_by_id": "16c61a3a-512a-48ac-b0be-b6b46fe6f430",
"updated_by_id": null
}{
"type": "not_found",
"code": "not_found",
"detail": "No cycle matches the given id in this project."
}
