Is that possible to add an another example for downloading file with curl?

[wddabc]

http://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/sword.html gives a fairly comprehensive usage of the curl command. I'm wondering if there could be another example for accessing a file given filename, doi using curl?

[pdurbin]

@wddabc well, you can't download files with Dataverse's implementation of SWORD and we don't plan to work on #183 any time soon. Instead, please use the Data Access API to download files: http://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.5/api/dataaccess.html

You're right that we should document somewhere how to download a file based on a DOI but it's a two step process. First you get a list of file IDs via the "Datasets" endpoint of the "native" API: http://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.5/api/native-api.html#datasets . Then you use the Data Access API to operate on the file IDs.

I've been thinking that maybe the API Guide should have a FAQ page or something!

[pdurbin]

@wddabc are you still interested in having us add an example?

[pdurbin]

You're right that we should document somewhere how to download a file based on a DOI but it's a two step process. First you get a list of file IDs via the "Datasets" endpoint of the "native" API: http://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.5/api/native-api.html#datasets . Then you use the Data Access API to operate on the file IDs.

@wddabc I just made pull request #6107 and explained in a new "getting started" page the two step process above. Here's how it looks:

Does this help? Are you still interested in this issue?

[wddabc]

Hi Philip,
Thanks for working on this! Sorry that I didn't get an up-to-date response somehow! I found a way in 2016 which uses linux command line instead of API. But the new doc is indeed helpful!

[pdurbin]

@wddabc great! I'll go ahead close this issue, then. Thanks!