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R2
Buckets
Objects

Get Object

GET/accounts/{account_id}/r2/buckets/{bucket_name}/objects/{object_key}

Retrieves an object from an R2 bucket. Returns the object body along with metadata headers.

For most workloads, we recommend using R2’s S3-compatible API or a Worker with an R2 binding instead.

Security

API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY
Path ParametersExpand Collapse
account_id: string

Account ID.

maxLength32
bucket_name: string

Name of the bucket.

maxLength64
minLength3
object_key: string

The key (name) of the object to retrieve. May contain slashes for path-like keys. Slashes (/) within the key MUST be sent literally and MUST NOT be percent-encoded (i.e. %2F); other reserved characters should be percent-encoded as usual.

Header ParametersExpand Collapse
"cf-r2-jurisdiction": optional "default" or "eu" or "fedramp"

Jurisdiction where objects in this bucket are guaranteed to be stored.

One of the following:
"default"
"eu"
"fedramp"
"If-Modified-Since": optional string

Returns the object only if it has been modified since the specified time. Must be formatted as an HTTP-date (RFC 7231), e.g. Tue, 15 Jan 2024 10:30:00 GMT.

"If-None-Match": optional string

Returns the object only if its ETag does not match the given value.

Get Object

curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/r2/buckets/$BUCKET_NAME/objects/$OBJECT_KEY \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"
Returns Examples