Documents on a submission

GET

/submissions/{id}/documents

curl -X GET "https://api.valjeanspecialty.com/api/agent/v1/submissions/SUBMISSION_ID/documents" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VALJEAN_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.valjeanspecialty.com/api/agent/v1/submissions/SUBMISSION_ID/documents", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.VALJEAN_KEY}`, },
});
console.log(await res.json());

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.valjeanspecialty.com/api/agent/v1/submissions/SUBMISSION_ID/documents",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['VALJEAN_KEY']}"},
)
print(res.json())

The file’s documents, plus the carrier paper you may have: presented quotes, binders, policies and endorsements.

Any key (read or read-and-submit).

Authorizations

bearerAuth
apiKeyHeader
oauth2
read

Parameters

Path Parameters

required

string format: uuid

Submission id.

Responses

200

application/json

object

documents

required

Array<object>

object

required

string format: uuid

source

required

“file”: the submission’s documents. “carrier”: presented quotes, binders, policies, endorsements.

string

Allowed values: file carrier

kind

required

Document type, or the carrier document kind (quote, binder, policy, endorsement).

string

file_name

required

string

size_bytes

required

integer | null

created_at

required

string format: date-time

Example

{
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "4186317b-232c-4da9-90a3-9f3b1fd9b7dc",
      "source": "file",
      "kind": "acord_125",
      "file_name": "ACORD 125.pdf",
      "size_bytes": 182044,
      "created_at": "2026-11-02T14:15:12Z"
    }
  ]
}

Headers

RateLimit-Policy

string

Example

"per-key";q=120;w=60

The rate limit for this key, as an IETF RateLimit-Policy: 120 requests (q) per 60-second window (w), counted across all of Valjean’s servers. Over it, you get 429 with Retry-After.

401

Key or token missing, wrong, expired or revoked (unauthorized). Don’t retry: get a new key or sign in again.

application/json

object

error

required

object

code

required

Machine-readable code, e.g. invalid_request, read_only, not_found, closed, rate_limited.

string

message

required

Plain-English explanation you can show a person.

string

issues

Validation problems, as “field: problem” (400 invalid_request only).

Array<string>

Example

{
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "This API key isn't valid. Ask your Valjean broker for a new one."
  }
}

403

Not allowed: read_only (a read key tried to submit), agency_not_active (no signed broker agreement), not_offered (instant quotes are off), forbidden (API access off for the agency). Don’t retry.

application/json

object

error

required

object

code

required

Machine-readable code, e.g. invalid_request, read_only, not_found, closed, rate_limited.

string

message

required

Plain-English explanation you can show a person.

string

issues

Validation problems, as “field: problem” (400 invalid_request only).

Array<string>

Example

{
  "error": {
    "code": "read_only",
    "message": "This key can read only. Ask your Valjean broker for a key that can submit."
  }
}

404

Not found, or not your agency’s (not_found). The API never says which.

application/json

object

error

required

object

code

required

Machine-readable code, e.g. invalid_request, read_only, not_found, closed, rate_limited.

string

message

required

Plain-English explanation you can show a person.

string

issues

Validation problems, as “field: problem” (400 invalid_request only).

Array<string>

Example

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "Submission not found."
  }
}

429

Too many requests (rate_limited): 120 a minute per key, 30 a minute per IP on public endpoints, counted across all of Valjean’s servers. Wait Retry-After seconds.

application/json

object

error

required

object

code

required

Machine-readable code, e.g. invalid_request, read_only, not_found, closed, rate_limited.

string

message

required

Plain-English explanation you can show a person.

string

issues

Validation problems, as “field: problem” (400 invalid_request only).

Array<string>

Example

{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limited",
    "message": "Too many requests. Try again in a minute."
  }
}

Headers

Retry-After

integer

Example

Seconds to wait.

500

Something went wrong on Valjean’s side (server_error). Safe to retry later; creates are idempotent with client_reference or an Idempotency-Key header.

application/json

object

error

required

object

code

required

Machine-readable code, e.g. invalid_request, read_only, not_found, closed, rate_limited.

string

message

required

Plain-English explanation you can show a person.

string

issues

Validation problems, as “field: problem” (400 invalid_request only).

Array<string>

Example

{
  "error": {
    "code": "server_error",
    "message": "Something went wrong. Try again shortly."
  }
}