Using Powershell and Content Server REST call to download a doc

Allan_Unterschutz

Couldn't find any detailed info so here is an example that might help others. Hopefully not a duplicate of something i couldn't find.

 

NOTE: doesn't use HTTPS and requires a non-windows authenticated application setup. URL's would need to be updated and a username password provided.

 

$Url = "http://csbulk01.dvn.com/otcsnolog/llisapi.dll/api/v1/auth"

 

    $Body = @{

        username = ""

        password = ""

    }

 

    $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri $Url -Body $Body -ContentType 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

    

    $ticket = $result.ticket

 

    $Url = "http://csbulk01.dvn.com/otcsnolog/llisapi.dll/api/v2/nodes/111968020"

   

    $output = "$PSScriptRoot"

   

    $header = @{ otcsticket = $ticket}

 

    $result2 = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri $Url -Headers $header

 

 

    $Url = "http://csbulk01.dvn.com/otcsnolog/llisapi.dll/api/v2/nodes/111968020/content"

   

    $output = ("$PSScriptRoot\"+$result2.results.data.versions[$result2.results.data.versions.Count-1].file_name)

   

    $header = @{ otcsticket = $ticket}

 

    $Body = @{

        ticket = $ticket

    }

 

    Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri $Url -Headers $header -OutFile $output

 

Dave Carpeneto

Hi Allan - very cool - thanks for this. I'm not a powershell person, so the education is appreciated :-) 

Note that this forum is targetted towards people using CSIDE (which is an Eclipse plugin used to write Content Server modules in OScript). As such I'm guessing that more applicable forums for sample code involving REST calls would be the generic dev forum ( https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/786303 ), or the forums @ https://developer.opentext.com/ (both have a lot of traffic regarding REST calls - I'd guess there's a few people out there who would appreciate the sample you're supplying here). 

Just thought I'd mention :-) All the best, Dave