Download File

nextcloud.download_file

ActionFiles & storageconnection required

Calls the Nextcloud API with the connection's credentials.

Download a file's bytes as the shared base64 file envelope, ready to hand to any upload node or file parser.

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Connection

Required: Yes — the node will not save without one
Auth type: Username & password
Providers: Nextcloud
Secret shape: {"username": "…", "password": "<app password>"}
Config it needs: base_url
Resolved by: config.connection_id, else node.connection_id

Configuration

1 field, 1 required. A dotted path is a nested object and name[] an array of objects — the editor renders the same tree.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Constraints	Example
path Path inside the account's Nextcloud files, e.g. /Documents/report.pdf.	string	Yes	—	—	/Documents/report.pdf

Example configuration

Every value below is the contract’s own example or default — nothing invented.

{
  "path": "/Documents/report.pdf"
}

Output

One shape.

result

Field	Type	Example
file_content The file, base64-encoded.	string	—
content_encoding	string	base64
filename	string	app-main.zip
content_type	string	application/zip
size Raw size in bytes (before base64).	number	—
path The path that was downloaded.	string	—

{
  "content_encoding": "base64",
  "content_type": "application/zip",
  "file_content": "",
  "filename": "app-main.zip",
  "path": "",
  "size": 0
}

Notes

The whole file is held in memory and travels in the step output, so it is bounded by MANTLE_BINARY_MAX_BYTES.

Related Nextcloud nodes

See Download File run in a workflow.

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