Revisions: get

Gets a revision's metadata or content by ID. Try it now.

Request

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/fileId/revisions/revisionId

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
fileId string The ID of the file.
revisionId string The ID of the revision.
Optional query parameters
acknowledgeAbuse boolean Whether the user is acknowledging the risk of downloading known malware or other abusive files. This is only applicable when alt=media. (Default: false)
fields string The paths of the fields you want included in the response. If not specified, the response includes a default set of fields specific to this method. For development you can use the special value * to return all fields, but you'll achieve greater performance by only selecting the fields you need. For more information, see Return specific fields for a file.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.photos.readonly

Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a Revisions resource in the response body.

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