`dataSources.readText`

Read the text of a CSV or plain-text file attached to a row or page (up to 2 MB, UTF-8), for example a bank statement to import with imports.preview and imports.commit. Nothing is stored.

GETPOST/api/v1/accounting/dataSources.readText

Permissions

accounting:read

Who can call it

admin, finance

Retries

Safe to retry: it only reads

MCP

accounting_data_sources_read_text

Fields

sourceenumRequired
Where the record came from.
notiongoogle_driveonedrive
itemIdstringRequired
1–200 characters · Matches ^[A-Za-z0-9_.:-]+$
fileIdstringRequired
1–200 characters · Matches ^[A-Za-z0-9_.:-]+$

curl -G https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/dataSources.readText \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'source=notion' \
  --data-urlencode 'itemId=item_id' \
  --data-urlencode 'fileId=file_id'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/dataSources.readText?source=notion&itemId=item_id&fileId=file_id", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/dataSources.readText",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
    },
    params={
        "source": "notion",
        "itemId": "item_id",
        "fileId": "file_id",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Response

{
  "data": { … }
}

Try it

Checks your input with this action’s real schema and answers like the API, with synthetic data. No key needed, and nothing changes.

Input

GET/api/v1/accounting/dataSources.readText

curl -G https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/dataSources.readText \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'source=notion' \
  --data-urlencode 'itemId=item_id' \
  --data-urlencode 'fileId=file_id'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/dataSources.readText?source=notion&itemId=item_id&fileId=file_id", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/dataSources.readText",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
    },
    params={
        "source": "notion",
        "itemId": "item_id",
        "fileId": "file_id",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Fields

Example

Try it