{"id":680,"date":"2021-05-27T06:13:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/product\/technique-getting-your-filemaker-container-data-out-of-the-data-api-by-self-referencing\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T20:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T20:48:12","slug":"technique-getting-your-filemaker-container-data-out-of-the-data-api-by-self-referencing","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/product\/technique-getting-your-filemaker-container-data-out-of-the-data-api-by-self-referencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Technique: Getting your FileMaker container data out of the Data API by self referencing"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOW DO I GET MY CONTAINER DATA OUT OF FILEMAKER??<\/span><\/p>\n


\nI turned this question over in my head for weeks before I had a moment of clarity that changed how I think about containers altogether.\u00a0 Too often, FileMaker developers leave images, documents and other files in external storage because they\u2019re too hard to manipulate well without a myriad of plugins, scripting and pain.\u00a0 I had heard for months that container data doesn\u2019t count against your Data API limit but one thing I <\/span>NEVER<\/span> heard anyone say was how they got the data out through the API!\u00a0 When I found the answer, I was dumbfounded with just how simple it is.\u00a0 I was just as dumbfounded that there was not a clearly marked help article, blog post or whitepaper on the subject.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

SOOOOOOO- I wrote one!\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you integrating your solution with a microservice that requires that some file is hosted at a public URL?
\nCan’t figure out how to get the file out of your FileMaker container and into that API you’re working with?
\nNo problem.
\nBy using a cleverly written FileMaker script, we can trick your FileMaker server into providing a public URL for your container.
\nDownload this free whitepaper to find out how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[33],"product_tag":[48],"class_list":{"0":"post-680","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-utility","7":"product_tag-document","8":"desktop-align-left","9":"tablet-align-left","10":"mobile-align-left","11":"ast-product-gallery-layout-vertical","12":"ast-product-gallery-with-no-image","13":"ast-magnify-disabled","14":"ast-product-tabs-layout-horizontal","16":"first","17":"instock","18":"featured","19":"downloadable","20":"sold-individually","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}