Sample - Plaid API
POST/institutions/get

List supported financial institutions

Lists supported financial institutions with pagination and optional product, routing-number, OAuth, and metadata filters. Supply count, offset, and country_codes to select the result page and countries, noting that institutions without overlap between supported and enabled products are excluded. Use options to control filtering and returned metadata.

  • RetriesRetries up to 2×, 500ms backoff, 30s timeout.

6 body fields

Request defining the institution page, countries, product filters, and optional metadata to return.

client_idstringoptional
Your Plaid API `client_id`. The `client_id` is required and may be provided either in the `PLAID-CLIENT-ID` header or as part of a request body.
secretstringoptional
Your Plaid API `secret`. The `secret` is required and may be provided either in the `PLAID-SECRET` header or as part of a request body.
countintegerrequired
The total number of Institutions to return.
offsetintegerrequired
The number of Institutions to skip.
country_codesarray<CountryCode>required
Specify which country or countries to include institutions from, using the ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code standard. In API versions 2019-05-29 and earlier, the `country_codes` parameter is an optional parameter within the `options` object and will default to `[US]` if it is not supplied.
optionsobjectoptional
An optional object to filter `/institutions/get` results.

2 status codes
200Returns a paginated array of supported institutions, the total number of available institutions, and a `request_id`.
institutionsarray<Institution>required
A list of Plaid institutions
totalintegerrequired
The total number of institutions available via this endpoint
request_idstringrequired
A unique identifier for the request, which can be used for troubleshooting. This identifier, like all Plaid identifiers, is case sensitive.
defaultError response
error_typestringrequired
A broad categorization of the error. Safe for programmatic use.
Allowed:INVALID_REQUESTINVALID_RESULTINVALID_INPUTINSTITUTION_ERRORRATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDEDAPI_ERRORITEM_ERRORASSET_REPORT_ERRORBASE_REPORT_ERRORRECAPTCHA_ERROROAUTH_ERRORPAYMENT_ERROR
error_codestringrequired
The particular error code. Safe for programmatic use.
error_code_reasonstringoptional
The specific reason for the error code. Currently, reasons are only supported for OAuth-based item errors; `null` will be returned otherwise. Safe for programmatic use. Possible values: `OAUTH_INVALID_TOKEN`: The user's OAuth connection to this institution has been invalidated. `OAUTH_CONSENT_EXPIRED`: The user's access consent for this OAuth connection to this institution has expired. `OAUTH_USER_REVOKED`: The user's OAuth connection to this institution is invalid because the user revoked their connection.
error_messagestringrequired
A developer-friendly representation of the error code. This may change over time and is not safe for programmatic use.
display_messagestringrequired
A user-friendly representation of the error code. `null` if the error is not related to user action. This may change over time and is not safe for programmatic use.
request_idstringoptional
A unique ID identifying the request, to be used for troubleshooting purposes. This field will be omitted in errors provided by webhooks.
causesarrayoptional
In this product, a request can pertain to more than one Item. If an error is returned for such a request, `causes` will return an array of errors containing a breakdown of these errors on the individual Item level, if any can be identified. `causes` will be provided for the `error_type` `ASSET_REPORT_ERROR` or `CHECK_REPORT_ERROR`. `causes` will also not be populated inside an error nested within a `warning` object.
statusintegeroptional
The HTTP status code associated with the error. This will only be returned in the response body when the error information is provided via a webhook.
documentation_urlstringoptional
The URL of a Plaid documentation page with more information about the error
suggested_actionstringoptional
Suggested steps for resolving the error
required_account_subtypesarray<string>optional
A list of the account subtypes that were requested via the `account_filters` parameter in `/link/token/create`. Currently only populated for `NO_ACCOUNTS` errors from Items with `investments_auth` as an enabled product.
provided_account_subtypesarray<string>optional
A list of the account subtypes that were extracted but did not match the requested subtypes via the `account_filters` parameter in `/link/token/create`. Currently only populated for `NO_ACCOUNTS` errors from Items with `investments_auth` as an enabled product.

Error handling

count, offset, and country_codes are required; count must be between 1 and 500, offset must be zero or greater, and country_codes must contain at least one supported ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. When used, options.products must contain at least one supported product, and its product filters require institutions to support all listed products.