Export payload cloud files

[sharp hamlet]

is there any functionality to accessing the payload cloud media files? I just want to be able to bring down production files/db to work with it locally and that seems to be very difficult. The mongo access is fine, just getting the files using the cognito access seems to be difficult (lack of listing access namely).

[wind oak]

New Community-Help Thread Created!

Help is on the way! To mark it as solved, use the /solve command. In the meantime, here are some existing threads that may help you:

Documentation:

• Cloud Projects - File Storage
• Cloud Projects - File Storage - Accessing Files Outside of Payload Cloud
• Getting Started

Community-Help:

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• How can I show custom error messages in media upload collections?
• PayloadCMS Upload field: how does it work?
• file upload to S3 bucket (plugin-cloud-storage)

[visual briar]

above links 404 currently. Does this documentation live elsewhere? We're also attempting to import/export media files from an existing Payload Cloud service to facilitate testing and migration planning.

[visual briar]

https://web.archive.org/web/20250623221624/https://payloadcms.com/docs/cloud/projects#accessing-files-outside-of-payload-cloud

[sharp hamlet]

I made a script @visual briar to extract the files. Worked a treat I'll see if I still have it.

so feel free to butcher it to work, as this was very quick and dirty. I have a folder called scripts in the root of my payload project with these two files:

so it picked up all the general payload config for the project and then the .env.cloud has the payload cloud files.