Download all my content with metadata from a workspace

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Hello,

As instructed by support im opening a ticket regarding our intent to download all files and metadata possible from Bluescape.

Our project is going to take some time to rise up again and I need to archive this, with the intention of restoring it in the future.

I have managed to connect to the API with help on another thread, but now I’d like some help about how to get this done.

Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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Hello Jorge,

I’m happy to hear you could authenticate using Postman after capturing the Bearer Token directly. I will engage the appropriate contacts about possibly using an API to download all files and metadata from your workspaces in Bluescape. As soon as we have more information, we will respond here.

Best Regards,
Cody Bentley

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Hello @spa_it_department ,

We don’t have a public bulk API for this type of export request. However, we have an API api/v3/workspaces/{workspace}/elements that can list all elements in a workspace. For elements that represent uploaded assets, like images, videos, and documents, the response will contain brief information regarding metadata about the assets and signed S3 URLs pointing to the assets themselves. Suppose you want to export all assets in a workspace using the API above. In that case, you will need to keep in mind that the download URLs provided expire in five minutes from the time of the query (in order to enforce access controls when users are removed from the workspace). So you may need to write your own script, which first queries api/v3/workspaces/{workspace}/elements to identify the element ids for all the elements you wish to download, then individually queries assets (using api/v3/workspaces/{workspace}/elements/{id} ) before downloading the returned URL.

Best Regards,
Cody Bentley

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Hello Cody,

I have a working script, and i managed to download the contents of the workspaces. I think it will be useful to have a visual export of the workspace layout. I can do that manually but i was wondering if there’s an “optimized” way to generate such export (it is basically a screenshot of the workspace).

I will look into the API docs, but any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

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EDIT: I just realized this is way offtopic to the thread. I will open a separate thread.

For future reference, here’s the repo to the script i used to download the files.

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Hello @spa_it_department ,

We are glad to hear you could write a script using the provided API calls. Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Best Regards,
Cody Bentley

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