Apps - Download app

Route URL

POST https://playcanvas.com/api/apps/download

Description

This will allow you to download an app which you can self host on your own server. The request will start an export job and the job details will be returned in the response. You can poll the job by id until its status is either 'complete' or 'error'. When the job is done, its data will contain a URL to download the exported app.

Example

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer {accessToken}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"project_id": 9999999, "scenes": [9999999], "name": "My App"}' "https://playcanvas.com/api/apps/download"

Parameters

project_id: number

The id of the project.

name: string

The name of the app. Must be less than 1000 characters

scenes: [number]

A list of scene ids to be included in the app. When you specify scenes then the first scene in the list will be used as the initial scene of the application.

branch_id [optional]: string

The id of the branch. If no id is specified the main branch will be used.

description [optional]: string

The description of the app. Must be less than 10,000 characters.

version [optional]: string

The version of the app. Can be a string up to 20 characters.

release_notes [optional]: string

Release notes for the app. Can be a string up to 10,000 characters.

scripts_concatenate [optional]: boolean

Set it to true if you want scripts to be concatenated.

scripts_minify [optional]: boolean

Set it to true if you want scripts to be minified. Defaults to true.

scripts_sourcemaps [optional] boolean

Set it to true if you want script sourcemaps to be generated. Defaults to false.

optimize_scene_format [optional] boolean

Set it to true if you want scenes to be in an optimized format (see Optimize Scene Format for more information)

engine_version [optional]: string

Set it to a Engine version string (full list of releases) if a specific version is needed for the app.

Response Schema

Status: 201 Created

{
    "status": "running" | "complete" | "error",
    "messages": list of strings,
    "created_at": date,
    "modified_at": date,
    "data": {
        "concatenate": boolean,
        "branch_id": string,
        "optimize_scene_format": boolean,
        "minify": boolean,
        "name": string,
        "sourcemaps": boolean,
        "scenes": list of int scene ids,
        "engineVersion": string,
        "preload_bundle": boolean,
        "project_id": int,
        "owner_id": int
    },
    "id": int
}

Errors

401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Project not found

404

Owner not found

404

Scene not found

429

Too many requests

Rate Limiting

This route uses a strict rate limit.