[Confluence] how to download an image as a file into local file system

[nnako]

Hi,

the atlassian-python-api provides some functions for uploading images into a Confluence space / page / ... . But I wonder if there is a function to actually download an existing image from a page where it has previously been attached. Skimming through the documentation, there seems to be one relevant function: get_attachments_from_content(), and maybe one other promising general function: get_page_child_by_type().

With none of those I have been successful, yet, while attempting to actually get an image file (e.g. test.png) from the Confluence page (identified by its page id) down into my local computer's target folder. I just get promising responses containing various metadata, even containing links which seem to point to the actual attachment.

-> Is there a function to directly download an attachment from a page into the local target file system?
-> If not, what would the practical steps be to get an image actually downloaded?

[gkowalc]

This functionality was recently added to the project see pull request #1283.