How to download images and files of an entity

API & Programming
1

If my articles containing images, then this query:

{
  findArticles(published: {is: true}) {
    name
    creationDate
    content {
      secret
      md 
    }
  }
}

will provide the images as links, i.e.

![LinhRab.jpg](/api/files/6ceda0ff-a002-487f-be53-9f971e1c0230#width=1638&height=1638)

Beside searching for the string or parsing it into the AST, is there a way to get it right from the API?

2

If you’re talking about images that are embedded in the content of a rich text field, there is no API call that will get you the image directly

3

Not sure what you mean. I suppose what I need is just to get the image url (api/files/6ceda0ff-a002-487f-be53-9f971e1c0230) without having to fetch the content

4

But you’re talking about images that are in a rich text field, right? You’re not talking about files which have been attached to the entity via the Files field…?

5

yes you are right. I forget that the field is called “rich text”. Why doesn’t it have an API for that? Apparently it has the URL

6

Not sure what you mean. The contents of any rich text field is available via the API

My point is that there is no single dedicated API to find/retrieve files which are embedded in the rich text. You need to retrieve the rich text field contents and then use the file API to get the file itself.

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