# Resolving an Episode

You may resolve (i.e. lookup) an episode with the following call. Just provide one of the following: a guid, episode slug, episode id, or episode title. If the episode is found, it will return summary information about the episode.

# Resolve Episode Request

POST https://api.backtracks.fm/v1/series/<series_id>/episodes/resolve HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: JWT <your backtracks access token>...
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "<one of 'guid', 'slug', 'id', 'title'>": "<guid, slug, id, or title of the episode>"
}
resolve/lookup option description
id id of the episode
slug slug of the episode
title title of the episode

# Resolve Episode Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Location: https://api.backtracks.fm/v1/series/<series_id>/episodes/resolve
Content-Type: application/hal+json; charset=utf-8

{
    "id": "<episode_id>",
    "slug": "meet-the-backtracks-player",
    "title": "Meet the Backtracks Player",
    "itunes_title": "",
    "episode_number": null,
    "episode_type_name": "full",
    "season_number": null,
    "subtitle": "",
    "description": "<p>Meet the Backtracks Player. To learn more visit https://backtracks.fm/publishers/podcast-player.",
    "show_notes": null,
    "guid": "3bf1b73e-08c9-11eb-8594-1200d2a0a327",
    "guid_encoded": "3bf1b73e-08c9-11eb-8594-1200d2a0a327",
    "is_guid_permalink": false,
    "is_guid_permalink_str": "false",
    "publish_status": 1,
    "publish_status_date": "2020-10-07T18:19:39.836577+00:00",
    "release_date": "2020-10-07T18:16:35.474584+00:00",
    "duration": "00:01:01",
    "humanize_duration": "1 min",
    "explicit_str": "no",
    "artwork_url": "https://example.com/images/main.jpeg?1603315772098",
    "external_url": "https://backtracks.fm/?ref=player",
    "podcast_enclosure_url": "https://example.com/something",
    "original_media_url": null,
    "enclosure_url_override": null,
    "filesize_in_bytes": 1014374,
    "mimetype": "audio/mpeg",
    "modified_timestamp": 1602094780.0,
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://api.backtracks.fm/v1/series/<series_id>/episodes/<episode_id>"
        }
    }
}