Download Files using Web API

How to return a file from an API endpoint in ASP.NET Core and create an HTML download link.

Changhui Xu
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5 min readFeb 22, 2021

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In this article, I will use a demo Web API application in ASP.NET Core to show you how to transmit files through an API endpoint. In the final HTML page, end users can left-click a hyperlink to download the file or right-click the link to choose “Save Link As” in…

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