Creating Quick Links

 This guide explains how to create a quick access link using Quatrix API. 

1. Log in to the account using GET /session/login. 
2. Get home_id from GET /profile/. 
   

3. Retrieve a link for uploading a file using POST /upload/link with the following parameters:
   

   Name	Type	Default Value	Description
   name*	string	-	file name
   parent_id*	string	-	the ID of the folder where you would like to upload your file. parent_id = home_id  from the previous call
   resolve	boolean	true	if there is an existing file with the same name, the new file will not be overwritten and will have an extension in its name (e.g.: the existing file - test.pgp and the new file - test(1).pgp ) if the value is false and the file with the same name already exists, you'll get an error: TypeError: Failed to fetch
   file_size	number	-	file sizes are measured in bytes (B)

   * required parameters 

4. Get the upload_key from the previous call and make POST /upload/chunked/{id}.
5. Complete the chunked upload of the file using GET /upload/finalize/{id}.

6. Create a quick link using POST /quicklink/create with the following parameters: 

   Name	Type	Default Value	Description
   subject	string	' '	the share subject
   files*	list of strings	-	the ID of the file you upload data to from the response GET: /upload/finalize
   pin	string	-	base64 format https://www.base64encode.org/
   notify	boolean	True	True or False

   *required parameters

Example Request URL

Request Payload

{
  "subject": "quick link test",
  "files": [
    "435766b3-8121-4685-8126-3edecde29a39"
  ],
   "pin": "MTIzNDU="
}

 Response Body

{
  "files": [
    "435766b3-8121-4685-8126-3edecde29a39"
  ],
  "activates": 1536842951,
  "id": "14a522d0-5a76-4ed6-a208-09382450148e",
  "expires": 1537447751
}