title: File Metadata HTTP API
Ponzu provides a read-only HTTP API to get metadata about the files that have been uploaded to your system. As a security and bandwidth abuse precaution, the API is only queryable by "slug" which is the normalized filename of the uploaded file.
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### Endpoints
#### Get File by Slug (single item)
GET `/api/uploads?slug=`
##### Sample Response
```javascript
{
"data": [
{
"uuid": "024a5797-e064-4ee0-abe3-415cb6d3ed18",
"id": 6,
"slug": "filename.jpg",
"timestamp": 1493926453826, // milliseconds since Unix epoch
"updated": 1493926453826,
"name": "filename.jpg",
"path": "/api/uploads/2017/05/filename.jpg",
"content_length": 357557,
"content_type": "image/jpeg",
}
]
}
```