Get Salesforce ContentVersion file info using node-fetch javaniceday.com

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Let’s say you want to get the file info without downloading it. For example, you want to know the file name and extension.

The way to do it is to make a request to:

https://myinstance-dev-ed.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v52.0/sobjects/ContentVersion/0688J000000Di2xTBA

First, let’s have a method to get the access token

      
const getJsForceConnection = async () => {
    const username = "******";
    const password = "******";
    const securityToken = "******";

    const salesforceUrl = "https://myinstance-dev-ed.my.salesforce.com";
    const salesforceApiVersion = "52.0";

    const options = {instanceUrl: salesforceUrl, loginUrl: salesforceUrl, version: salesforceApiVersion};
   
    const conn = new jsForce.Connection(options);
    await conn.login(username, password + securityToken);

    return conn;
}

And then let’s make a request to get the file info with node-fetch

      
const getFileInfo = async (conn, salesforceFileId, salesforceApiVersion) => {
    const url = `${conn.instanceUrl}/services/data/v${salesforceApiVersion}/sobjects/ContentVersion/${salesforceFileId}`;
    const ops = {
        method: 'GET',
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            'Authorization': 'OAuth '+conn.accessToken
        }
    };
    const res = await fetch(url, ops);

    if(!res.ok) throw new Error(`error getting file info from ${url} status code: ${res.status} status message ${res.statusText}`);

    const json = await res.json();
    return {
        fileTitle: json.Title,
        fileName: `${json.Title}.${json.FileExtension}`,
        fileExtension: json.FileExtension,
        fileId: salesforceFileId,
    };
}

If you want to download the file without using node-fetch see
https://www.javaniceday.com/post/salesforce-rest-api-download-contentversion

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