List and download build artifacts for a CircleCI job via the API v2

domain: circleci.com · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/{project-slug}/{job-number}/artifacts with header 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN'. project-slug is {vcs-type}/{org-name}/{project-name} (e.g. gh/CircleCI-Public/api-preview-docs); job-number is the numeric build number shown in the UI (CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM), not the job's internal UUID id.
  2. The response returns an 'items' array of artifact objects, each with 'path', 'node_index', and 'url' fields.
  3. For each artifact you want, issue a separate GET request to the value in its 'url' field, supplying the same 'Circle-Token' header - raw artifact URLs do not allow unauthenticated access.
  4. Save the response body to disk using the artifact's 'path' as the relative filename.
  5. Reference: https://circleci.com/docs/guides/toolkit/api-developers-guide/

Known gotchas

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