# Accessing Data

## Get Document

The following describes how to retrieve a document from a Hyperspace Collection.

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```python
document = hyperspace_client.get_document(collection_name, document_id)
```

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<pre class="language-java" data-line-numbers><code class="lang-java"><strong>Dcoument document = hyperspaceClient.getDocument(collectionName, documentId)
</strong></code></pre>

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```javascript
document = hyperspaceClient.get(id: documentId,
                                index: collectionName )
```

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<mark style="color:purple;">document\_id</mark> is a string. This is the identifier that you specified when the document was uploaded into the Hyperspace Collection and this is the identifier that is returned as the results of a query, as described in [Accessing Query Results](broken://pages/G7WvubF0GJUUtCL3NQ77).

**Where** –

<mark style="color:purple;">document</mark> is a json or a python dict object.


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