How to download a file attached in confluence page

[Georgios Taskos]

I'm a little bit confused with the REST API documentation.

Say I have a confluence page 

https://COMPANY_DOMAIN/confluence/display/SOME_ID/This+is+root+page.

In the above page there is a section with a hyperlink like the below

https://COMPANY_DOMAIN/confluence/download/attachments/51527290/FileName

Reading a little bit around I found an answer implying that with this https://COMPANY_DOMAIN/rest/api/content/{id}/child/attachment I could download the file but not sure what the actual id is.

I tried with a GET and adding Authorization header with my company credentials.

Any ideas or examples?

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Georgios Taskos,

nearly everything you need is written in the upper article.

First you need a list of all attachments (can also be only one) of one page.This is done via Rest:

GET /rest/content/{id}/child/attachment

The {id} is the internal number of your page. You can see this when you click on Page Information.

In the JSON response you have to look for the attachment and remember its

_links -> download

value. Then you need to make a normal HTTP call to download the file.

http://localhost:8090/download/attachments/98334/my_attachment.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1451988725383&api=v2

There the authentication works different as for a rest call, when not running from the browser. Read this post. Its for Jira, but it works the same way for Confluence.

So long

Thomas

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Georgios Taskos,

you didn't come back to this question. Have you solved your problem? Do you need still assistance?

So long

Thomas