Download Media using API

[scary.scarecrow]

Hi,
Is it possible to download media files using API? Can anyone guide me towards the documentation or just let me know how?
Thanks!

[Kal_Lam]

@scary.scarecrow, this post discussed should help you solve your issue:

Unable to download images through DownloadThemAll

Hi @Mujahid_Aliyu, @ahmaddiab, another workaround, not using DownThemAll, could be to do something like this from your terminal: TOKEN="your_secret_token" curl -s "https://[kf_url]/api/v2/assets/[asset_uid]/data.json" \ -H "Authorization: Token $TOKEN" \ > data.json for URL in $(cat data.json | jq '.results[]._attachments[].download_url' | sed s/\"//g); do \ FILENAME=$(echo $URL | awk -F "%2F" '{print $(NF)}'); \ wget "$URL" -O "$FILENAME" --header="Authorization…

[scary.scarecrow]

Hi @Kal_Lam ,
Thanks. But that is not the solution I’m looking for. That solution suggests we loop over the URLs and download files one by one. That is time consuming and impractical. I am looking for the API method to download media as zip file. Like the option we find in downloads. Attaching screenshot for clarity. You will notice the Media Attachments (zip) option. I want to know if we have similar option in API too.
Thanks.

[Josh]

Hi @scary.scarecrow, you can refer to this script where I use the API to pull all project media, but again it does loop through each item: GitHub - joshuaberetta/kobomedia

Otherwise you can send a POST request to the endpoint to initiate a ZIP export (the same as pressing the “New Export” button in the UI):

https://{kc_url}/{username}/exports/{asset_uid}/zip/new

I would suggest using your browser’s dev tools to see what API calls are made from the UI to do what you’re wanting — the UI is API driven.

We will be implementing an improved ZIP media export feature in the coming months.

[scary.scarecrow]

Cool. Thanks @Josh . Exactly the answer I was looking for.