# How to get the path of a guild resource
**URL:** https://guildai.org/t/how-to-get-the-path-of-a-guild-resource/705
**Category:** General
**Created:** [May 5, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://guildai.org/t/how-to-get-the-path-of-a-guild-resource/705 "2021-05-05T18:30:58Z")
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### Author:  [@samedii](https://guildai.org/u/samedii)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://guildai.org/t/how-to-get-the-path-of-a-guild-resource/705/1 "2021-05-05T18:30:58Z")
Is there a better way of doing this? I tried to use `guild.ipy` but didn’t have any luck
```
import subprocess
subprocess.check_output(f"guild open {selection} -c echo", shell=True).decode("utf-8").strip()
```
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### Author:  [@garrett](https://guildai.org/u/garrett)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://guildai.org/t/how-to-get-the-path-of-a-guild-resource/705/2 "2021-05-07T19:44:16Z")
A slightly cleaner command would be:
```command
guild select {selection} --path
```
But no, nothing in `ipy` for this, other than programmatically finding the run and getting it’s `dir`. Something like this:
```python
from guild import ipy
runs = ipy.runs()
runs.iloc[0].run.value.dir
```
It’d be nice if `runs` supported various filters but it’s designed for programmatic selection via the dataframe interface.
A yet-to-be-officially-released API module `guild._api` can be used this way:
```python
from guild import _api as gapi
gapi.runs_list()[0].dir
```
This `runs_list` function supports all of the filters so you can do something like this:
```python
gapi.runs_list(ops=["train"], completed=True)[0].dir
```
While this module is marked as private, it’s quite stable and used extensively to automate tests, which are run all the time.
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### Author:  [@samedii](https://guildai.org/u/samedii)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://guildai.org/t/how-to-get-the-path-of-a-guild-resource/705/3 "2021-05-07T23:23:53Z")
This looks great. Being able to access guild via a python interface has been on my wish list for a while 😃