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# Get Default Email Component

> Read the company's default component for a slot, such as the default email footer.

# Get Default Email Component

You can read the component pinned as your company default for a slot. The default `footer` component is the footer that new sequence, campaign, and AI-generated emails are built with, so this is what you read before changing the footer everywhere.

When no default is set, the endpoint returns `404` and emails fall back to the footer Sequenzy generates from your company profile.

## Request

<ParamField path="slot" type="string" required>
  Default slot to read. Currently only `footer`.
</ParamField>

```bash theme={null}
curl "https://api.sequenzy.com/api/v1/email-components/defaults/footer" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer API_KEY"
```

## Responses

<ResponseExample>
  ```json 200 theme={null}
  {
    "success": true,
    "component": {
      "id": "cmp_123",
      "companyId": "comp_123",
      "name": "Default Footer",
      "description": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "id": "block_1",
          "type": "footer",
          "variant": "full",
          "showUnsubscribe": true
        }
      ],
      "componentType": "footer",
      "defaultSlot": "footer",
      "version": 3,
      "createdAt": "2026-01-10T10:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2026-08-01T09:30:00.000Z"
    }
  }
  ```

  ```json 400 theme={null}
  {
    "success": false,
    "error": "Unsupported slot: header. Supported slots: footer"
  }
  ```

  ```json 401 theme={null}
  {
    "success": false,
    "error": "Invalid API key"
  }
  ```

  ```json 404 theme={null}
  {
    "success": false,
    "error": "No default footer component is set for this company. Emails fall back to the generated footer."
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>

## Related

* [Set Default Email Component](/api-reference/email-components/set-default)
* [List Email Components](/api-reference/email-components/list)