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# Generate a scan report

How to generate a Snyk API and Web scan report

With Snyk API & Web, you are one click away from generating reports to showcase your security to auditors or customers, achieve compliance, perform internal assessments, and more.

Snyk provides several types of target scan reports, as described in [Report types](/scan-fix-and-prevent/scan-with-snyk/snyk-api-web/review-and-fix/overview-reports/report-types.md).

There are a few different ways to generate a scan report:

* From a target's Scan Activity.
* From the global Scan Activity.
* From a target's scan results.

This article describes each way in detail.

## From a target's Scan Activity

Follow this procedure to generate a scan report from the Scan Activity of a target.

1. In the **Targets** section, click the target name to show its details.
2. Click the **Scan Activity** tab. A **Reports** button appears next to each scan.
3. To generate the report of a completed scan, click the button and choose the type of report.

## From the global Scan Activity

Follow this procedure to generate the scan report from the global Scan Activity in your account.

1. Access the **Scans** section. The **Scan Activity** tab displays a **Reports** button next to each scan.
2. To generate the report of a completed scan, click the button and choose the type of report.

## From a target's scan results

Follow this procedure to generate the scan report from the details of a target's scan results.

1. Navigate to the **Targets** section and click the target name to show its details.
2. Click the **Scan Activity** tab.
3. In the scans listed in the **Scan Activity** tab, click the row of the scan to view the scan details.
4. Click **Reports** and choose the type of report to generate.

Regardless of where you perform this action, after you click the type you want, Snyk generates the report. You can choose to receive the report by email or download it as soon as it is ready.

Visit [Switch report format](/scan-fix-and-prevent/scan-with-snyk/snyk-api-web/review-and-fix/overview-reports/switch-report-format.md) to learn how to change the file format between DOCX and PDF.


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