Get page's blocks in EPiServer Content delivery API - episerver

I have a page in Episerver / Optimizely, with a page that has some blocks, but I want to access the blocks through https://localhost:5000/api/episerver/v3.0/content/57 (whith episerver content delivery api), but the blocks won't follow. Is it possible to return the blocks with the page?

This is an ODATA api, you'll need to tell it to expand the properties you want to see
To expand everything
https://localhost:5000/api/episerver/v3.0/content/57?expand=*
To expand a certain property
https://localhost:5000/api/episerver/v3.0/content/57?expand=propertyToExpand
Comma separate properties to expand if multiple
https://localhost:5000/api/episerver/v3.0/content/57?expand=propertyToExpand,otherPropertyToExpand
Optimize your query by using select (you should)
https://localhost:5000/api/episerver/v3.0/content/57?expand=propertyToExpand,otherPropertyToExpand&select=propertyToExpand,otherPropertyToExpand

Strangely enough, for me using expand does work but I can't even access a page by calling its id. I get a 404 response from the call if I try something like:
https://localhost:5000/api/episerver/v3.0/content/5&expand=*
And if I try to call a none existing id, I get a 500 response.
But if I assign a friendly url (ie: start) to my page whose id is 5, I can call it through that:
https://localhost:5000/api/episerver/v3.0/content?ContentUrl=start&expand=*

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I figured it out. There is no need to use segment. This can be achieved using the flat, filter_column and filter_pattern parameters.
Setting flat=1 will make it so all pages are returned in a single array, instead of hierarchically.
With filter_column and filter_pattern I can filter the results.
The URL I use now is: http://example.org/matomo/index.php?&module=API&token_auth=12345&method=Actions.getPageUrls&format=json&idSite=1&period=month&date=today&flat=1&filter_column=label&filter_pattern=%5E%2Fpost%2F. This does exactly what I want.
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