Get file metadata
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id} \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"id": "file-8Kz3pQ",
"object": "file",
"bytes": 1024000,
"created_at": 1790500000,
"filename": "contract.pdf",
"purpose": "user_data"
}Files
Get file metadata
Metadata for one of the workspace’s files.
GET
/
v1
/
files
/
{id}
Get file metadata
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id} \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.pre.dev/v1/files/{id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"id": "file-8Kz3pQ",
"object": "file",
"bytes": 1024000,
"created_at": 1790500000,
"filename": "contract.pdf",
"purpose": "user_data"
}Authorizations
apiKeyAuthxApiKey
The workspace API key (pdk_…) from Integrations → Built-in in the pre.dev dashboard.
Path Parameters
Response
The file.
File metadata. id and filename are always present. The other fields follow one of two styles: object: "file", bytes, purpose and a Unix created_at, or type: "file", size_bytes, mime_type, downloadable and an ISO created_at.
Use it in a file content part as file_id.
Allowed value:
"file"Allowed value:
"file"Whether GET /v1/files/{id}/content can return the bytes.
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