Download an attachment of a message

GET
/v1/inboxes/{inbox_id}/messages/{message_id}/attachments/{attachment_id}

An inbound message's attachment, always as application/octet-stream (its declared type is the attachment's content_type): treat it as untrusted.

Authorization

bearerAuth
headerAuthorizationBearer <token>

A secret API key from the dashboard: coss_live_… for production environments, coss_test_… for sandbox environments.

Path Parameters

inbox_id*string

The inbox's id.

message_id*string

The message's id.

attachment_id*string

The attachment's id (from the message's attachments).

Header Parameters

Coss-Version?"2026-10-10"

The API version (a date) to use for this request. Defaults to your organization's version, pinned to the latest one when it first used the API and upgraded from the dashboard. The SDK always sends the version it was built for.

Value in"2026-10-10"

Response Body

The attachment.

response?fileapplication/octet-stream
Formatbinary
import { Coss } from "coss";const coss = new Coss({  apiKey: process.env.COSS_API_KEY,  baseUrl: "https://api.coss.com",});const { data, error } = await coss.inboxes.messages.getAttachment("inbox_01k7c8m4q2f3e9v6t5r1n0p8yz", "imsg_01k7c8m4s1d3c9x0z4e6g7h8j9", "rcvdatt_01k7c8m4r0c2b8w9y3d5f6g7h8");
"string"