The sendspace Application Programming Interface (API) allows you to embed sendspace services in your applications, programs, or scripts, regardless of platform and programming language.
All communication with the sendspace API (1.2) assumes a UTF-8 encoding.
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Method: download.getInfo
- Description
Returns information required to download a file.
- Arguments
| Name | Mandatory | Description |
| session_key | Yes | Received from auth.login |
| file_id | Yes | file_id or full file URL starting with http:// |
| password | No |
- Returns
URL for direct download of the file, and file information (name & size)
- Response
<result method="download.getInfo" status="ok">
<download file_id="" name="" url="" file_size="" />
</result>
- Usage Example
http://api.sendspace.com/rest/?method=download.getinfo&session_key=9i96woykgory1crglmykgycjwa5k2cq2&file_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsendspace.com%2Ffile%2Fxapz8a
- Possible Errors
| Code | Name | Description |
| 6 | API_ERROR_SESSION_BAD | Session expired or not found |
| 9 | API_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND | File not found |
| 11 | API_ERROR_PERMISSION_DENIED | Permission denied |
| 12 | API_ERROR_DOWNLOAD_TEMP_ERROR | Download is temporarily unavailable |
| 19 | API_ERROR_PRO_EXPIRED | Pro user, account expired |
| 22 | API_ERROR_BAD_PASSWORD | A wrong or empty password was given |
| 23 | API_ERROR_BANDWIDTH_LIMIT | Account bandwidth limit reached |
| 26 | API_ERROR_INVALID_FILE_URL | Not a sendspace download URL (must start with http://www.sendspace.com/ and contain a 6 character link) |
