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Ratmil
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11 months ago

Download only first 100 bytes of a file via API

Is there an endpoint in the API to get only the first n (let's say 100) bytes of a file.  I don't want to download the whole file.
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DB-Des
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11 months ago

Hi Ratmil,

I wanted to follow up as I realized I forgot to mention that our "content-download" endpoints support HTTP range requests. 

This means you can actually specify a range in the request headers, such as the first 100 bytes of a file, using the Range header.

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