---
title: "Retrieve Data from the Cache"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/cache/retrieve-data-from-cache/
description: "This page describes the method to retrieve data from the cache in your Python application with sample code snippets."
last_updated: 2025-11-19T15:07:41Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Retrieve Data from the Cache - API"
    url: /en/api/code-reference/cloud-scale/cache/get-cache-value/#GetCacheValue
  - name: "Cache Help"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/cache/introduction
  - name: "SDK Scopes"
    url: /en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes
---

# Retrieve data from the cache

### Get Cache Value

[Catalyst Cloud Scale Cache](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/cache/introduction) is divided into partitions or cache units called segments. Each segment stores cache items in the form of key-value pairs. Both keys and values are of type String.

You can retrieve the value of a cache item from a segment in the cache using the `get_value()` method. You must pass the key name as the argument and the value corresponding to that key will be returned as a response.

To know more about the [component instance](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/cache/get-component-instance/) `cache_service` and the [segment_service](en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/cache/get-segment-instance/) `segment_service` used below, please refer to their respective help sections.

**Parameters Used**

<table class="content-table">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th class="w20p">Parameter Name</th>
      <th class="w20p">Data Type</th>
      <th class="w60p">Definition</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>`Key`</td>
      <td>String</td>
			<td>A **Mandatory** parameter. Will hold the key for retrieving the cache value.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

```python
#Get cache value
cache_service = app.cache()
segment_service = cache_service.segment()
data = segment_service.get_value('key')

```

A sample response is shown below :

```json
{
    "cache_name": "Name",
    "cache_value": "Amelia Burrows",
    "expires_in": "Mar 09, 2023 06:20 PM",
    "expiry_in_hours": "48",
    "project_details": {
        "id": "2648000001343001",
        "project_name": "appEngine",
        "project_type": "Live",
    },
    "segment_details": {"id": "2648000001343037", "segment_name": "Default"},
    "ttl_in_milliseconds": "172800000",
}

```

### Get Cache Object

You can retrieve the details of the cache where the key-value pair is of type dictionary. The key object is retrieved using the `get()` method, where the key name is passed as an argument. 

To know more about the [component instance](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/cache/get-component-instance/) `cache_service` and the [segment instance](en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/cache/get-segment-instance/) `segment_service` used below, please refer to their respective help sections.

**Parameters Used**

<table class="content-table">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th class="w20p">Parameter Name</th>
      <th class="w20p">Data Type</th>
      <th class="w60p">Definition</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>`cache_name`</td>
      <td>String</td>
			<td>A **Mandatory** parameter. Will hold the key for retrieving the cache object.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

```python

cache_service = app.cache()
segment_service = cache_service.segment()
data = segment_service.get('key')

```

A sample response is shown below :

```json
{
    cache_name: "Name",
    cache_value: "Amelia Burrows",
    project_details: {
        project_name: "AlienCity",
        id: "2136000000007733"
    },
    segment_details: {
        segment_name: "Location",
        id: "2136000000008572"
    },
    expires_in: "Aug 18, 2021 06:39 PM",
    expiry_in_hours: "47",
    ttl_in_milliseconds: "172727000"
}

```

> **Info :** Refer to the [SDK Scopes table](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes) to determine the required permission level for performing the above operation.