<p>Files and symlinks support<ahref="#custom-media-types">a custom media type</a> for retrieving the raw content or rendered HTML (when supported).

Directories and submodules do<em>not</em> support custom media types.</p>

<p><em>Notes</em>:</p>

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<p><strong>Note</strong>:</p>

<li>To get a repository’s contents recursively, you can<ahref="/v3/git/trees/">recursively get the tree</a>.</li>

<li>This API has an upper limit of 1,000 files for a directory. If you need to retrieve more files, use the<ahref="/v3/git/trees/#get-a-tree">Git Trees API</a>

<li>This API supports files up to 1 megabyte in size.</li>

<h3id="parameters-1">Parameters</h3>