---
title: "Download a knowledge file"
method: GET
path: "/v1/knowledge/files/{file_path}/content"
tags: ["External API"]
---

# Download a knowledge file

`GET /v1/knowledge/files/{file_path}/content`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.traversal.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.traversal.com/v1/knowledge/files/{file_path}/content`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Stream the raw bytes for a customer-visible knowledge file.

## Path parameters

- `file_path` string, required

## Headers

- `If-None-Match` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- string, binary

## Other responses

- `304`: The supplied If-None-Match validator is current.
- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not Found
- `409`: Conflict
- `500`: Internal Server Error
- `503`: Service Unavailable
- `4XX`: Client error returned in the V1 error envelope.

## Changes

> 66 revisions in range; 9 not diffed.

- **2026-08-26** `6ee9e975dda2`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/traversal/apis/traversal-api/changes/v1/knowledge/files/:file_path/content/get.md)

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