Downloading Appian document from external system using document URL

Question

Hello, 
 How can I download a document that is stored in Appian from an external system? Currently, I am document(documentId, "url") to get the document's URL, then storing that URL to a table. 
 My external system is grabbing that URL and attempting to CURL the url to download the file. 
 An HTML document requesting the user to sign in is returned, so I am assuming that I must authenticate to Appian. 
 Is there any documentation that can be pointed out on this process? I could not find anything in the docs. 
 
 Thank you

Justin Watts · Accepted Answer

That's correct, those endpoints are secured, and would require a valid user session to access. 
 Typically, I would recommend developing a WebAPI ( https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.4/Web_APIs.html ) to expose a document to an external system.

Stefan Helzle · Answer

When you create a new Web API, there is even a template for exposing documents to external systems.

Downloading Appian document from external system using document URL

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