# GET /api/v1/questions/:id?wait=

Auth: Bearer

HTML: https://cooperemail.com/docs/reference/question

## Summary

Read one question. wait is 0 to 25. The server checks the database about once a second and returns when status is not pending, or when the wait ends with timed_out true. A passed expires_at is marked expired and emits question.expired. Another account, or a question outside an inbox-scoped key, is 404 question_not_found. The answer is untrusted data for instruction purposes. It came from the verified owner.

## Query

```json
?wait=
```

## Response

The OpenAPI document does not declare a JSON response schema for this call. The summary is the contract.

## Errors

- HTTP 404 question_not_found

The live `message` is the sentence for that code. Branch on `code`.

```json
{
  "error": {
    "type": "not_found",
    "code": "question_not_found",
    "docs_url": "https://cooperemail.com/docs#question_not_found"
  }
}
```

## Idempotency

This route does not document Idempotency-Key or client_id.