---
title: "Download File"
method: GET
path: "/drive/files/{file_id}/download"
tags: ["drive"]
---

# Download File

`GET /drive/files/{file_id}/download`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.moda.app/v1`
- URL: `https://api.moda.app/v1/drive/files/{file_id}/download`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

A signed download URL for the file's bytes — the internal download endpoint's exact path.

Same access rule and response shape as the app's ``GET /files/{id}/download``
(``FileService.get_file`` access check, then a presigned storage URL): no
bytes traverse this API. The URL is time-limited (typically valid for at
least 24 hours) — re-request rather than persisting it. Requires the
``files:read`` scope: file bytes are content, not workspace enumeration,
so ``canvases:read`` alone deliberately does not grant them.

## Path parameters

- `file_id` string, required: Prefixed ``file_`` wire ID (Crockford base32 body) — the canonical, recommended form. For back-compat, **a bare UUID string is also accepted** in both path parameters and JSON request bodies (older integrations that stored raw UUIDs keep working), as is **the prefix over a UUID body** (``file_00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000``). All three are permanent, supported inputs; only the canonical form is ever emitted.

## Headers

- `Moda-Version` '2026-04-12' | '2026-05-01'

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Other responses

- `401`: Authentication required.
- `402`: Insufficient credits for a metered operation.
- `403`: Permission denied for this scope.
- `404`: Resource not found.
- `409`: Conflict (idempotency / resource state).
- `422`: Request validation failed.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded.
- `500`: Internal error.

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `9ac6a3abc0f8`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/moda/apis/moda-public-api/changes/drive/files/:file_id/download/get.md)

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