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Get Expense

Retrieves one expense and its receipts. Receipt download links expire 15 minutes after the response, so download rather than store them. Use Search Expenses to find an expense ID. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Read only
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Brex account once, then configure and run Get Expense from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "brex-get-expense",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    brex: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    expenseId: "Expense ID",
    expand: ["Expand"],
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Get Expense inputs
Property Type Description
expenseId Expense ID string
The ID of the expense, e.g. expense_cmVjZWlwd. Use Search Expenses to search by merchant, amount, or date, or Search Card Transactions to get the expense_id behind a card posting.
Required
expand Expand string[]
Related records to include in the response. Keep receipts.download_uris to get the receipt files themselves.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
brex-get-expense
Version
0.0.1
App
Brex
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes