Get details of multiple files

This call returns the details of multiple specified files, including file names and file metadata.

Request

https://api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/v2/bulk/files/get

Example request

POST v2/bulk/files/get
Host: api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov
X-SBG-Auth-Token: 3259c50e1ac5426ea8f1273259740f75
curl -X POST \
  https://api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/v2/bulk/files/get \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-SBG-Auth-Token: b04aa2a2e98348a1a3a75ca677ea7fd7' \
  -d '{
    "file_ids" : ["5a97d4741c94edbe85904936", "5a97d4741c94edbe85904909"]
}'

Header Fields

NameDescription
X-SBG-Auth-Token
required
Your authentication token.
Content-Type
required
application/json

Request body

KeyData typeDescription
file_idsstringThe IDs of the files you are querying for details. Separate file IDs with a comma.

Response

See a list of response codes that may be contained in the body of the response..

Response body

The response contains information about all of the files which were queried.

Example response body

{
    "items": [
        {
            "resource": {
                "href": "https://api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/v2/files/5a97d4741c94edbe85904936",
                "id": "5a97d4741c94edbe85904936",
                "name": "1000G_phase1.snps.high_confidence.b37.vcf",
                "size": 7313069069,
                "project": "rfranklin/my-project",
                "created_on": "2018-03-01T10:22:44Z",
                "modified_on": "2018-03-01T10:22:44Z",
                "storage": {
                    "type": "PLATFORM"
                },
                "origin": {},
                "tags": [],
                "metadata": {}
            }
        },
        {
            "resource": {
                "href": "https://api.sb.biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/v2/files/5a97d4741c94edbe85904936",
                "id": "5a97d4741c94edbe85904909",
                "name": "C835.HCC1143_BL.4.contig_1_mpileup_SNPs.filtered.Somatic.hc.and_more.concat.sorted.reordered.vcf",
                "size": 5313069069,
                "project": "rfranklin/my-project",
                "created_on": "2018-03-01T10:22:44Z",
                "modified_on": "2018-03-01T10:22:44Z",
                "storage": {
                    "type": "PLATFORM"
                },
                "origin": {},
                "tags": [],
                "metadata": {}
            }
        }
        }
    ]
}