# GET /v1/convai/conversations/{conversation_id}/summary (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Get Conversation Summary

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/conversations/conversation-id/summary?max_messages=40' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| conversation_id | path | string | Yes | The id of the conversation you're taking the action on. |
| max_messages | query | integer | No | Maximum number of chat message turns to include inline. W... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"conversation_id":"string","agent_id":"string"}

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