Title: WP_HTTP_Requests_Response::get_data
Published: August 16, 2016
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# WP_HTTP_Requests_Response::get_data(): string

## In this article

 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/get_data/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/get_data/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/get_data/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/get_data/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Retrieves the response data.

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/get_data/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 string Response data.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/get_data/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    public function get_data() {
    	return $this->response->body;
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-http-requests-response.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-http-requests-response.php#L138)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-http-requests-response.php#L138-L140)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/get_data/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_HTTP_Requests_Response::to_array()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/to_array/)`wp-includes/class-wp-http-requests-response.php` |

Converts the object to a [WP_Http](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http/) response array.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_http_requests_response/get_data/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.6.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.6.0/) | Introduced. |

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