Hi,
Can you get the text content of the Item Description Widgets via the API?
When you open an item via the web interface, you can view all the Updates, Files and the Activity Log. We have also made use of the Item Description widget, but I can’t figure out how to retrieve the Widgit’s text content via the API. Is this possible currently?
Thanks
Hello there @little_bobby_tables and welcome to the community!
I hope you like it here 
As of today it is not possible to retrieve that content via the API.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Cheers,
Matias
Thanks @Matias.Monday,
Do you know if this is on the roadmap or would I have to submit a feature request?
Also, Is it possible to retrieve files that have been uploaded to an items file gallery directly, rather than being uploaded as part of an update to an item and added to the items files column?
Thanks
Hello again @little_bobby_tables,
This is not in the roadmap for near future changes.
Regarding the files in the gallery, you can use a query like this one:
{
items(ids: 1234567890) {
assets(assets_source: gallery) {
id
name
public_url
}
}
}
It would be really great to see item description exposed through an API endpoint. We are really leveraging the item description widget as our place to define scope, and given how integrated we are with various automations outside of Monday, we really need this. Please consider. It looks like some of the JSON data is already there with the Get Item API call (it’s just none of the data seems to be valid).
Hello there @tom-csg,
When you speak about an “item description”, what are you referring to exactly?
The terminology? Such as “Item” or “Epic” or so?
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Cheers,
Matias
Absolutely. Thanks for asking, Matias. Here’s a screenshot of the field to which I am referring. I think the default name for the tab is “Item Description” (which I renamed to Scope for our use case). I added it by using the + icon on the far right. The data I need to get at from the APIs are the content that we enter in the Item Description panel.
Thank you for the explanation! I wanted to make sure it was the same data as the original topic!
It is yet not possible to get that field, but every vote on this request gives this traction!
Hi! This is really strange that it’s not available. I have been putting our item descriptions here but if I can’t retrieve it via the API it’s not of much use for me and a lot of other people. I have voted!
I have to echo what the others are saying. It’s odd (at best) that the item description is not available. I’m trying to set up a simple integration from monday to jira.
Without the item description, this API is simply not fit for purpose. Surfacing the item URL in jira is not a useful solution for us as most of our engineering team (who use jira) don’t have access to monday, and most of our monday users don’t have acess to jira
Is there a workaround for this?
Hello there @salesforce_nerd and welcome to the community!
As of today, this is not possible and there is no workaround to get it via the API.
If that changes, we will announce it here!
Cheers,
Matias
Hi @Matias.Monday,
Get the item description by API wil be a realy important feature us.
We have a internal project using AI to help us to check and audit each card, but now we have a block because we don’t have a way to get that item description.
Do you have some way to prioritize this feature?
Cheers,
WIllian
Hello there @willian.reimann,
The way to prioritize this would be for users to vote for the request in this topic at the top of the site!
The more votes the feature has, the more traction it gets 
Hey there,
I hope this isn’t the only way Monday prioritizes content.
We are an Enterprise Business and thinking about adopting Monday DEV.
Having an Item Description that is HTML Formatted to be able to migrate data from JIRA to, sounds like a basic need - or an entry barrier if not available.
