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/api/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

[Rahul_Purohit]

I am unable to list attachments of a page like you said.

I got 404 after hitting 

https://<comapny-domain>/rest/content/<page-id>/child/attachment

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Rahul_Purohit ,

there was a typo - I fixed in my answer:

False:

https://<comapny-domain>/rest/content/<page-id>/child/attachment

True:

https://<comapny-domain>/rest/api/content/<page-id>/child/attachment

So long

Thomas

[NISARG SONI]

@Thomas Deiler 

The following curl command to GET a list of attachment with their 'result' worked where I am getting a 'result' of attachment. 

curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic BASE64CODE" -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck" https://<COMPANY_DOMAIN>/rest/api/content/<pg-id>/child/attachment?filename=<filename>

However, I am trying to download an attachment.

In result with multiple parameters of attachment, I am seeing download part...

"download":"/download/attachments/<pg-id>/<filename>?version=59&modificationDate=1641419542563&api=v2"

I would like to download this attachment in remote host.

Can you please help me figure out the EXACT curl command to download the file in REMOTE HOST directory (hostname@//home/backup/)

Let me know please.

Thanks

Nisarg

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @NISARG SONI ,

welcome to the community!

Please do as described in my post from Feb 1, 2018:

• first fetching all attachment information of one page
• then simple take the download link (it's in the JSON response) to get one attachment

The curl command is

curl -H "Authorization: Basic ....." <download link>

So long

Thomas D

[NISARG SONI]

Hello @Thomas Deiler 

I ran the following command and it shows me file data in the remote server itself.

curl -H "Authorization: Basic BASE64CODE" https://<COMPANY_DOMAIN>(/download/attachments/<pg-id>/<filename>?

However, I would like to SAVE the exact file with same format in remote server in some directory (Let's say //home/backup)

Regards,

Nisarg

[NISARG SONI]

Hello @Thomas Deiler 

I just figured out the way to download and save it in remote server. Here is the curl command:

curl -H "Authorization: Basic BASE64CODE" https://<COMPANY_DOMAIN>/download/attachments/<pg-id>/<filename>? -o //home/backup/<filename>

Thanks 

Nisarg

[Toru Furuya]

Hi, I got the download link URL from the REST API response and am trying to download the file but having trouble.

What am I missing? The below request returns a 302 HTTP response with a `location` response header that seems to point to the exact location of the file

curl -u <email>:<api_token> "https://<domain>/wiki/download/attachments/2534081977/<file>.zip?version=1&modificationDate=1643705591470&cacheVersion=1&api=v2"

[April Dagonese]

@Toru Furuya did you ever figure this out? I'm having a similar issue using an oauth2 token except I'm just getting back 401s instead.