Download a file uploaded in a Typeform response (file_upload answer)
domain: typeform.com · 7 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Auth: Authorization: Bearer {token} with responses:read scope — file_url is NOT a public/pre-signed link; unauthenticated fetches fail.
Find the answer with "type": "file_url" in the response (Responses API or webhook payload) — it belongs to a field of type file_upload.
Do NOT parse or rely on the file_url string's structure — Typeform documents it as subject to change.
Fetch the bytes via the dedicated endpoint: GET https://api.typeform.com/forms/{form_id}/responses/{response_id}/fields/{field_id}/files/{filename} -H 'Authorization: Bearer {token}'
Add ?inline=true to get Content-Disposition: inline instead of attachment.
To fetch every uploaded file for a form at once, use the separate 'Download all files uploaded by respondents for a form' endpoint instead of looping per response.
Official docs: https://www.typeform.com/developers/responses/reference/get-a-file-from-a-response/ ; https://www.typeform.com/developers/responses/JSON-response-explanation/
Known gotchas
file_url is explicitly documented as unstable — build downloads against the documented files endpoint, not by pattern-matching the URL.
inline=true only changes Content-Disposition, not auth requirements.
EU-region accounts: file downloads follow the same regional-domain constraints as other response data.
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