topic Re: Getting Sheet Thumbnails via REST API in App Development

Getting Sheet Thumbnails via REST API

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:00:36 GMT

I'm trying to get the URL of the thumbnail that has been defined for each sheet in an app via the Qlik Sense REST API.

So far I have discovered that you can get a list of sheets via /qrs/app/object/full and a list of content, including the thumbnail image URL that I want, via /qrs/app/content/full.

At this point, the missing piece is how to link them together to determine which content URL goes with which sheet. I don't notice any commonality in the IDs. Is there another endpoint that will give me linkage information or am I missing something?

Thank you.

Re: Getting Sheet Thumbnails via REST API

sebastian_serva — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:27:41 GMT

Did you figure this out Shon?

Seb.

Re: Getting Sheet Thumbnails via REST API

jakapunlmc — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:32:28 GMT

Hi Sebastian,

I searched on this community but didn't found an answer

Refering to the original post creator, I have the same question.

There are several api endpoints to get object data: for example /qrs/app/full, qrs/app/object/full, and qrs/app/content/full

I'd like to get the list of app id, app name, app thumbnail,

and lower level which I need app's sheets, sheet name, sheet thumbnail and so on.

Seems that I need to combined them all which causes bad performance to our server

Any suggestion?, or there other api endpoint for this?

Re: Getting Sheet Thumbnails via REST API

mountaindude — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:41:56 GMT

Sheet and app thumbnails are available via the engine JSON API, not the repository service.
You can use enigma.js to connect to the engine service, and then get/modify for example sheet thumbnails.

If you want examples you can take a look at the code in Butler Sheet Icons, which is a cross platform command line tool that automates the creation of sheet thumbnails. Basically taking screen shots of each sheet, uploading the images to a content library and then setting the images as sheet icons.

Node.js code available at https://github.com/ptarmiganlabs/butler-sheet-icons