Printables API — Download Model Images and PDFs
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Download an image or document

Stream a Printables image or attached document: a gallery image, a file preview, a designer avatar, or the printing-instructions PDF, using a url taken from a model result. Only Printables media hosts are accepted. HTTP Range requests are supported, so a large file can be fetched in pieces. This is a GET with query parameters, not a JSON POST, and it bills as one request. It does not serve model files — Printables publishes no public download URL for geometry or sliced files.

GET /media Utility
https://api.fetchlayer.dev/printables/media
OpenAPI JSON

Headers

Authorization string required

Bearer token — your FetchLayer API key.

Parameters

url string required

Printables image or document URL, as returned on a model. Passed as a query parameter.

filename string optional

Content-Disposition filename to serve the file as (max 200 characters).

Range string optional

Standard HTTP Range request header, for example bytes=0-65535. Sent as a header, not a query parameter.

Response Fields

media

Download an image or document

(body) binary

The file itself. 200 for the whole file, 206 for a requested byte range.

Content-Type header

Media type of the file, e.g. image/jpeg or application/pdf.

Content-Range header

Byte range served, on a 206 response.

Accept-Ranges header

Present when the file supports range requests.

Request

curl -X GET "https://api.fetchlayer.dev/printables/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.printables.com%2Fmedia%2Fprints%2F512345%2Fimages%2Fcover.jpg&filename=cable-tray-cover.jpg" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ss-your-key"

Response

{
  "note": "Binary file streamed back with Content-Type, Content-Length and Accept-Ranges headers."
}