API User's Guide
PowerShell: Downloading attachments
Introduced in 2022.2
You can use PowerShell scripts to download files attached to Alloy Navigator object records. The script below downloads the file file_name attached to the Incident T000030 . It gets access to Alloy Navigator using user authentication.
Copy the script and replace the placeholders with your actual API URL and the credentials of an Alloy Navigator technician account.
NOTE: To get the proper output, make sure that the ticket T000030 exists in your database and the file 7B5B7027-E73C-4003-8AD6-4A0478D3AAED is available; otherwise, replace the sample values with your actual IDs.
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$ApiUrl = 'https://API_URL' # API URL without a trailing slash, i.e. https://example.com/api $username = 'your_username' # technician username $password = 'your_password' # technician password $postParams = @{ 'grant_type' = 'password'; 'username' = $username; 'password' = $password; }$htmlResponse = Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri "$ApiUrl/token" -Method POST -Body $postParams $token = (ConvertFrom-Json $htmlResponse.Content).access_token $htmlResponse = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$ApiUrl/Object/T000030/Attachments/7B5B7027-E73C-4003-8AD6-4A0478D3AAED/download" ` -Method GET ` -Headers @{ 'authorization' = "bearer $token"; 'content-type' = 'application/json'; }$outFle = New-Item -Name $htmlResponse.Headers['Attachment-File-Name'] -ItemType File -Force $fileStream = $outFle.OpenWrite(); $htmlResponse.RawContentStream.WriteTo($fileStream); $fileStream.Dispose(); |