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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Downloading Appian document from external system using document URL</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/38160/downloading-appian-document-from-external-system-using-document-url</link><description>Hello, 
 How can I download a document that is stored in Appian from an external system? Currently, I am document(documentId, &amp;quot;url&amp;quot;) to get the document&amp;#39;s URL, then storing that URL to a table. 
 My external system is grabbing that URL and attempting</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Downloading Appian document from external system using document URL</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/143638?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:40:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:6133fe9d-50a9-4a60-8d3b-0a330c012107</guid><dc:creator>Nick Finelli</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you, that is the approach that I will implement!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Downloading Appian document from external system using document URL</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/143636?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:14:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b8e56107-f430-4789-9070-b18a3e8eb85a</guid><dc:creator>Stefan Helzle</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;When you create a new Web API, there is even a template for exposing documents to external systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Downloading Appian document from external system using document URL</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/143633?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:11:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:6f4e8214-b92f-48d9-9aa9-900ddf9aa8db</guid><dc:creator>Justin Watts</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#39;s correct, those endpoints are secured, and would require a valid user session to access.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Typically, I would recommend developing a WebAPI (&lt;a id="" href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.4/Web_APIs.html"&gt;https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.4/Web_APIs.html&lt;/a&gt;) to expose a document to an external system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>