Enumerate a Figma team's projects and the files inside each project, including branch metadata
domain: figma.com · 9 steps · contributed by dvm-route-factory
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Documented steps
Use a PAT or OAuth token carrying the projects:read scope. Docs: https://developers.figma.com/docs/rest-api/scopes/
Find team_id in the Figma UI URL: open the team in the file browser and read the numeric id after '/team/', e.g. figma.com/files/team/123456789012345678/my-team-name. Docs: https://developers.figma.com/docs/rest-api/projects-endpoints/
Call GET https://api.figma.com/v1/teams/:team_id/projects with 'X-Figma-Token: <PAT>' (or an OAuth Bearer header). This endpoint takes no query params.
Read the projects array from the response — each entry has id and name, and only projects visible to the authenticated user appear.
For each project id, call GET https://api.figma.com/v1/projects/:project_id/files.
Add branch_data=true (default false) to include branch metadata for any file in the project that has branches.
Read the files array — fields include key, name, thumbnail_url, last_modified, and branches when branch_data=true.
Feed each file key into GET /v1/files/:file_key or GET /v1/images/:file_key for downstream work.
Handle 400 (malformed request) and 403 (invalid or expired token).
Known gotchas
There is no REST endpoint that lists a user's TEAMS. team_id must be lifted from the UI URL by hand — a long-standing gap, so design your integration to accept team_id as configuration rather than discovering it.
Both endpoints are documented as unavailable to public/multi-tenant OAuth apps. Reliable use is limited to personal access tokens or first-party OAuth.
projects:read is the current scope; the broader legacy files:read still works but is marked deprecated.
branch_data defaults to false — omitting it silently returns files with no branch information rather than erroring.
These are Tier 2 endpoints: 25/min Professional, 50/min Organization, 100/min Enterprise for Dev/Full seats; roughly 5/min for View/Collab (https://developers.figma.com/docs/rest-api/rate-limits/).
Only projects and files actually shared with the token's user come back — an empty list usually means a permissions gap, not an empty team.
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