List Documents
Retrieves a paginated list of documents, optionally filtered by category or document type and sorted by a chosen field.
Endpoints
get https://www.zohoapis.com/writer/api/v1/documents
OAuth Scope
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://www.zohoapis.com/writer/api/v1/documents?offset=0&limit=10&sortby=SOME_STRING_VALUE&sort_order_by=SOME_STRING_VALUE&category=SOME_STRING_VALUE&resource_type=SOME_STRING_VALUE' \
--header 'Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken d92d4xxxxxxxxxxxxx15f52'Query Parameters
The starting position for the list.
The maximum number of documents to return. Maximum allowed value is 100.
The field by which to sort the results. created_time sorts by creation date, modified_time sorts by last modified date, shared_time sorts by when the document was shared, and name sorts by document name.
Defaults to modified_time, except when category is shared_to_me, in which case it defaults to shared_time.
When category is recent, this parameter is ignored and results are always sorted by modified_time descending.
The sort direction for the results. Defaults to descending, except when sortby is name, in which case it defaults to ascending. When category is recent, this parameter is ignored.
Filters the results by ownership, access, or status. favourite returns favourited documents, trashed returns documents in the Trash, and recent returns recently accessed documents.
A comma-separated list of document types to filter by. Supported values: fillable, merge, sign, label.
{
"offset": 2,
"documents": [
{
"created_time": "2018-03-30T10:58:48Z",
"role": "OWNER",
"modified_time_ms": 1522411691658,
"parent_folder_id": "40dgcFOLDER4579020",
"collaboration_id": "1203298717956895014",
"last_opened_time": "2018-03-30T13:54:51Z",
"open_url": "https://writer.zoho.com/writer/open/ponaz5c1a267e61074c50a012d8e4b519c755",
"is_favourite": false,
"type": "document",
"document_id": "ponaz5c1a267e61074c50a012d8e4b519c755",
"last_opened_time_ms": 1522411691658,
"thumbnail_url": "https://writer.zoho.com/writer/thumbnail/ponaz5c1a267e61074c50a012d8e4b519c755",
"created_by": "Amelia",
"document_name": "Presales tips",
"created_time_ms": 1522407528000,
"modified_time": "2018-03-30T13:54:51Z",
"preview_url": "https://writer.zoho.com/writer/preview/ponaz5c1a267e61074c50a012d8e4b519c755",
"creator_id": "4579020",
"download_url": "https://writer.zoho.com/api/v1/download/ponaz5c1a267e61074c50a012d8e4b519c755",
"permalink": "https://workdrive.zoho.com/file/ponaz5c1a267e61074c50a012d8e4b519c755",
"published_url": "https://writer.zoho.com/writer/published/ponaz5c1a267e61074c50a012d8e4b519c755",
"document_type": "document",
"lastmodified_by": [
{
"email_id": "amelia@zylker.com",
"profile_photo": "https://contacts.zoho.com/file?t=user&ID=4579020&fs=thumb",
"user_id": "4579020",
"timezone": "Asia/Kolkata",
"language": "en",
"display_name": "Amelia"
}
],
"status": "active"
}
],
"total_count": 9,
"limit": 1
}
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