How to complete the challenge GET /todos (200) ? filter id single result

By Alan Richardson · Published 2026-07-31

How to issue a GET request on a top level entity endpoint and filter by one todo id while there are multiple todos in the database.

GET /todos (200) ? filter id single result

Issue a GET request on the /todos end point with an id filter that returns one todo while multiple todos exist in the database.

• id=3 means return the todo where the id is exactly 3
• there must be more than one todo in your current session
• the response should contain exactly one todo
• the returned todo should have the same id that you filtered on

Basic Instructions

• Issue a GET request to end point "/todos"
  • https://apichallenges.com/todos
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
• Choose an id from the current todo list
• Add the id as an exact filter:
  • https://apichallenges.com/todos?id=3
• The response status code should be 200 because the request is accepted
• Check that the response contains one todo with the requested id

Try it now

If you need to check which todo ids are available, use GET /todos. See the solution.

GET /todos to see the available todo ids

If you do not have more than one todo, create another one using POST /todos. See the solution.

POST /todos to create another todo item

The sample below uses id=3; edit the id if your current data uses a different todo id.

GET /todos?id=3 to return one matching todo

Example Request

> GET /todos?id=3 HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: application/json

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: application/json
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid

Returned body:

{
  "todos": [
    { "id": 3, "title": "single matching todo", "doneStatus": false, "description": "" }
  ]
}

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