Read File Content
GET/api/v1/beta/files/{file_id}/content
Get a presigned URL to download the file content.
Read File Content
curl https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v1/beta/files/$FILE_ID/content \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY"{
"expires_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
"url": "https://example.com",
"form_fields": {
"foo": "string"
}
}Returns Examples
{
"expires_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
"url": "https://example.com",
"form_fields": {
"foo": "string"
}
}Note for AI agents: this documentation is built for programmatic access.
- Overview of all docs: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt
- Any page is available as raw Markdown by appending index.md to its URL — e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md
- Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ — search (BM25 full-text), grep (regex), read (fetch a page), and list (browse the doc tree). See https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt for parameters.
- A hosted documentation MCP server is available at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp. If you support MCP, you can ask the user to install it for browsing these docs directly (an alternative to the REST API). Setup: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/shared/mcp/