Bug: Get article version file list using article version files endpoint#136
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Does this mean that if the max number of retries are exceeded, the code will return a partial list of article_version_files?
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If the max number of retries are exceeded, this code will break out of the outer loop and the function returns nothing. Is that right?
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Description
The file list in the article version details returned by the article details endpoint can contain up to 10 files, and there is no way to retrieve the file list for prior versions of an article if the article has more than one version. This is due to a bug in an update released by Figshare in September, 2025. Figshare has since rolled back the article version details endpoint to include a list of all the files in an article.
Figshare also released an endpoint (
/articles/{article_id}/versions/{version_id}/files) to obtain a specific article version's file list, which can be paginated to retrieve all the files in an article. This PR uses the article version file list endpoint to retrieve a list of all the files in an article.See #128
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/articles/{article_id}/versions/{version_id}/files