Brex ACTION
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)curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
-d '{
"external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
"id": "brex-get-expense",
"configured_props": {
"brex": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" },
"expenseId": "Expense ID",
"expand": ["Expand"]
}
}'// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
{
requestInit: {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
"x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
"x-pd-environment": "production",
"x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
"x-pd-app-slug": "brex",
},
},
},
)
const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)
const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()
// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
name: "brex-get-expense",
arguments: {
expenseId: "Expense ID",
expand: ["Expand"],
},
})SCHEMA
Inputs
Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.
| 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
- Source
- View on GitHub ↗