Transfer APIs

/api/transfer/initialize

Initiates and prepares a new transfer. TransferId, TransferKey and fileserver information is returned.

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.

  • logintoken - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/authentication/login in order to identify user. Skip this if the user does not have a Filemail Account. Optional.
  • to - Text - Comma separated list of recipients (email addresses). Or name of ContactGroup to send to. Optional.
  • from - Text - Email address of the person sending the files. Optional.
  • subject - Text - Subject of email that is delivered to the recipient(s). Optional. Max 200 chars.
  • message - Text - The message inserted in the email to the recipient(s). Optional.
  • notify - True/False - Indicates whether you would like a email notification every time a file is downloaded. Optional.
  • confirmation - True/False -Indicates whether you would like a email notification after the files have been successfully sent. Optional.
  • days - Number - How many days the transfer can be downloaded. Set to default value of account if not specified. Optional.
  • password - Text - Sets an additional password on the transfer which is required to download the files. Optional.
  • transfersize - Number - Expected size of the entire transfer in bytes (i.e. how many bytes the client expects to upload). Optional.

  • source - Text - Devicetype. Optional. Web = Default. Valid alternatives: Web, Iphone, Ipad, WindowsPhone, WindowsTab, AndroidPhone, AndroidTab, Outlook, Desktop

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com 
POST /api/transfer/initialize?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=2ac1241817fb4285aa0a1dbd00a21dad
    &to=recipient@email.com&subject=Hi&message=Look%20at%20this&notify=true&confirmation=true&days=10
    &password=MySecretPass

Example Response

{
  "transferid": "YSEVQIGGNLJFVFP",
  "transferkey": "62612b1d95794a87a87e0d6cd4f65a0e",
  "transferurl": "http://sl21.filemail.com/api/file/add",
  "responsestatus": "ok"
}

/api/transfer/get

Returns files (with urls to retrieve files through HTTP GET) and other information related to the transfer.

  • apikey - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/initialize. Required
  • transferid - Text - Id of the transfer. Required.
  • logintoken - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/authentication/login in order to identify user. Skip this if the user does not have a Filemail Account. Optional.
  • filesLimit - Number - maximum amount of files to return. Optional.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com
GET /api/transfer/get?apikey=2ac1241817fb4285aa0a1dbd00a21dad&transferid=HGTUIJBGTRFGJPO&

Example Response

{
  "transfer": {
    "from": "sender@example.com",
    "message": "Hey Tim, here are the files. Give me a holler when you have looked at them.",
    "expiredate": 1354138194677,
    "downloads": 20,
    "sentdate": 1353878994677,
    "files": [
      {
        "filename": "180x500_4_2.swi",
        "filesize": 484095,
        "downloadurl": "https://www.filemail.com/api/file/get?file...",
        "fileid": "d9e234e17c0d49cf872e0f863ec6d87b",
        "smallpreview": "https://www.filemail.com/images/icons/...png",
        "largepreview": "https://www.filemail.com/images/icons/...png"
      },
      {
        "filename": "test.mp3",
        "filesize": 5922685,
        "downloadurl": "https://www.filemail.com/api/file/get?file...",
        "fileid": "d49e3f6d458343ab93dd64067686acf3",
        "smallpreview": "https://www.filemail.com/images/icons/...png",
        "largepreview": "https://www.filemail.com/images/icons/...png"
      },
      {
        "filename": "63300102_Østbanebygn_M1etg_MIDL.dwg",
        "filesize": 3678804,
        "downloadurl": "https://www.filemail.com/api/file/get?file...",
        "fileid": "972d75d29a55435480082d3ab2a5d50f",
        "smallpreview": "https://www.filemail.com/images/icons/...png",
        "largepreview": "https://www.filemail.com/images/icons/...png"
      }
    ],
    "notify": true,
    "status": "STATUS_COMPLETE",
    "id": "qxrfkirjzwjvwbp",
    "url": "https://www.filemail.com/d/qxrfkirjzwjvwbp",
    "size": 110093096
  },
  "responsestatus": "OK"
}

/api/transfer/complete

Marks the transfer as Complete and sends out email(s) to receivers. /api/transfer/get can now be invoked and the files can be downloaded.

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.

  • transferid - Text - ID of the transfer. Required.
  • transferkey - Text - Key of the transfer. Required.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com 
POST /api/transfer/complete?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=KDJF9JDF7JFN754H&transferid=HGTUIJBGTRFGJPO
    &transferkey=3783hf73h783jhdf83j93k

Example Response

{
  "responsestatus": "ok"
  "downloadurl": "https://www.filemail.com/d/HGTUIJBGTRFGJPO"
}

/api/transfer/forward

Sends the original email to the given email address(es) and adds the given email address to the list of recipients for the transfer.

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.

  • transferid - Text - ID of the transfer. Required.
  • logintoken - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/authentication/login in order to identify user. Required.
  • to - Text - Comma separated list of recipients (email addresses). Required.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com 
POST /api/transfer/forward?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=203rj9apgu9ka3fq0lap43igvn4ak&transferid=HGTUIJBGTRFGJPO
&transferkey=3783hf73h783jhdf83j93k&to=test@asfasf.no

Example Response

{
  "responsestatus": "ok"
}

/api/transfer/cancel

Cancels an unfinished transfer

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.
  • transferid - Text - ID of the transfer. Required.
  • transferkey - Text - Key of the transfer. Required.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com 
POST /api/transfer/cancel?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=KDJF9JDF7JFN754H&transferid=HGTUIJBGTRFGJPO
    &transferkey=3783hf73h783jhdf83j93k

Example Response

{
  "responsestatus": "ok"
}

/api/transfer/delete

Deletes transfer

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.
  • transferid - Text - ID of the transfer. Required.
  • logintoken - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/authentication/login in order to identify user. Required.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com 
POST /api/transfer/delete?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=KDJF9JDF7JFN754H&transferid=HGTUIJBGTRFGJPO

Example Response

{
  "responsestatus": "ok"
}

/api/transfer/compress

Processes files in a transfer and prepares them for being served as a compressed archive. [DEPRECATED]

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.

  • transferid - Text - ID of the transfer to compress. Required.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com 
POST /api/transfer/compress?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&transferid=HGTUIJBGTRFGJPO

Example Response

{
  "responsestatus": "ok"
}

*addfile*

Files can be added to a transfer after it has been initialized through /api/initialize. Important: Add files using standard HTTP multipart/form-data POST to the Url  retrieved by /api/initialize. HTTP 406 will be returned if the fileserver did not receive the posted file correctly - try to upload again a few times if this happens.

  • transferid - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/initialize. Required.
  • transferkey - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/initialize. Required.
  • thefilename - Text - the name of the file. Use this if you are unable to properly URL Encode the filename when sending the <filecontent>. Optional.
  • chunkpos - Number - The position in the file where the chunk should be written. Required when using chunking, otherwise optional.
  • md5 - Text - MD5 hash of the filecontent - BASE64 encoded. E.g. 'MmdYzU+gCb+g/PqavfGttA=='. If the calculated hash on our server is different, then HTTP Status 449 is returned - meaning that the chunk must be uploaded again. Optional.
  • compressed - True/False - Set to true if the <filecontent> is compressed (zip). Optional.
  • <filecontent> - HTTP multipart/form-data POST. The filecontent can be compressed (zip). Required.

Example Request

POST https://sl20.filemail.com/savefile.ashx?transferid=JIRPAXTDQMVAJZB
                &transferkey=5812ea4388e24035abe5ba7cb06b3b47 HTTP/1.1 
Host: fsdev.filemail.com 
Connection: keep-alive
thefilename: Untitled-2.png 
Content-Length: 44050 
Origin: http://www.filemail.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11 
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryXY7VW2AbYnFNylnD 
Accept: */* 
Referer: https://www.filemail.com/
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch 
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 

------WebKitFormBoundaryXY7VW2AbYnFNylnD 
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="Untitled-2.png" 
Content-Type: image/png 

[[[FILECONTENT]]]
------WebKitFormBoundaryXY7VW2AbYnFNylnD--

Example Responsese

HTTP 200 OK

/api/transfer/file/rename

Renames file in a transfer

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.
  • logintoken - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/authentication/login in order to identify user. Required.
  • fileid - Text - ID of file to rename. Required.
  • filename - Text - New filename. Avoid the characters < > : " / \ | ? * Required.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com">https://www.filemail.com
POST /api/transfer/file/rename?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=KDJF9JDF7JFN754H&fileid=8H6GHn6GBD65290J&filename=NewFile.txt

Example Response

{
  "responsestatus": "ok"
}

/api/transfer/file/delete

Removes file from transfer. Remember to also update the ZIP file by invoking /api/ziptransfer after removing files

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.
  • logintoken - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/authentication/login in order to identify user. Required.
  • fileid - Text - Id of file to delete. Required.

Example Request

API Address: https://fileserver926.filemail.com
POST /api/transfer/file/delete?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=KDJF9JDF7JFN754H&fileid=8H6GHn6GBD65290J

Example Response

{
  "responsestatus": "ok"
}

/api/transfer/update

Updates properties for a transfer

  • apikey - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/initialize. Required
  • logintoken - Text - Retrieved by former invocation of /api/authentication/login in order to identify user. Required.
  • transferid - Text - Id of the transfer. Required.
  • message - Text - Updates the message field of the transfer. Optional.
  • subject - Text - Updates the subject field of the transfer. Optional.
  • days - Number - How many days the transfer can be downloaded. Optional.
  • downloads - Number - How many times the transfer can be downloaded. Optional.
  • notify - True/False - Indicates whether you would like a email notification every time a file is downloaded. Optional.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com
POST /api/transfer/update?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=KDJF9JDF7JFN754H&transferidid=HGTUIJBGTRFGJPO
    &message=This%20is%20the%20new%20message&days=30&downloads=100

Example Response

{
  "responsestatus": "ok"
}

/api/transfer/sent/get

Returns list of transfers sent by user. If the user is Administrator of a Filemail Business account - then transfers for all users in the company can be returned.

InputParameters:

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.

  • logintoken - Text - The logintoken of the authenticated user. Required.

  • getexpired - True/False - Option to include expired transfers. Optional. Default: false

  • getforallusers - True/False - Option to include transfers sent by all users in a company. Only works for an admin of a Filemail Business account. Optional. Default: false

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com
GET /api/transfer/sent/get?&apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=2ac1241817fb4285aa0a1dbd00a21dad

Example Response

{
  "transfers": [
    {
      "from": "sender4@filemail.com",
      "subject": "s2",
      "message": "m2",
      "expiredate": 1350314399,
      "downloads": 22,
      "sentdate": 1350055199,
      "files": [], //Invoke /api/transfer/get in order to get filelist for this transfer.
      "notify": false,
      "responsestatus": "STATUS_COMPLETE",
      "id": "JZGRNCULDOIMIVL"
    }
  ],
  "responsestatus": "OK"
}

/api/transfer/received/get

Returns list of transfers sent to the user's email address. If the user is an Administrator of a Filemail Business account - then transfers sent to all of the company users can be returned.

InputParameters:

  • apikey - Text - Your Api Key. Required.
  • logintoken - Text - The logintoken of the authenticated user. Required.
  • getForAllUsers - True/False - Option to include transfers received by all users in a company. Only works for an admin of a Filemail Business or Enterprise account and when the admin is configured to access other users' files. Optional. Default: false.
  • from - Number (unixtime in milliseconds since 1970.1.1) - Retrieves transfers received only after this date. When not specified all long-term transfers are returned and regular transfers not older than 90 days. Optional.

Example Request

API Address: https://www.filemail.com
GET /api/transfer/received/get?apikey=asidj98hasdopu9h09sd7h&logintoken=2ac1241817fb4285aa0a1dbd00a21dad

Example Response

{
  "transfers": [
    {
      "subject": "s1",
      "message": "m1",
      "expiredate": 1350564097,
      "downloads": 20,
      "sentdate": 1350304897,
      "files": [], //Invoke /api/transfer/get in order to get filelist for this transfer.
      "notify": false,
      "responsestatus": "STATUS_COMPLETE",
      "id": "WHVAYVYMFCGUNMT"
    }
  ],
  "responsestatus": "OK"
}
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