Check if file exists in artifactory without downloading

Question

I need to check if a file exists. My approach until now was doing it via Artifactory REST API

url = https://artifactory.io/path_to_file/file.jar
headers = {'X-JFrog-Art-Api': 'api_key'}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
assert(200 == response.status_code)
assert(response.text != "")

but there's a file that it too big and it's taking too long to get the response.

Is there another way to check if this file exists?

Answer 1

You could check the status code returned when getting the file info, not the file itself.

See the documentation of this REST API.

For example:

url = https://artifactory.io/api/storage/path_to_file/file.jar

headers = {'X-JFrog-Art-Api': 'api_key'}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
assert(200 == response.status_code)
assert(response.text != "")

Answer 2

You can use one of the Search APIs or (and that is what I recommend) use the JFrog CLI search commands