# External client reading file content
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/external-client-reading-file-content/11909
**Category:** User Stories
**Created:** [August 1, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/external-client-reading-file-content/11909 "2018-08-01T12:04:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mzimmerman](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/mzimmerman)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/external-client-reading-file-content/11909/1 "2018-08-01T12:04:17Z")
I have been using syncthing for a while and am writing an internal application for my organization whereby it would be nice to access the “cloud” of syncthing but not actually mirror that contents locally.
Ideally, I’d poll the event API to get when files are added, modified, or deleted, then do another API call to retrieve the contents of that file.
This seems theoretically possible (contents of the file needs an API endpoint as far as I can tell), however I don’t know if this is a “supported” use of syncthing or not.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@uok](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/uok)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/external-client-reading-file-content/11909/2 "2018-08-01T12:32:28Z")
maybe combine Syncthing with another tool like Nextcloud?
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### Author:  [@AudriusButkevicius](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/AudriusButkevicius)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/external-client-reading-file-content/11909/3 "2018-08-01T17:02:12Z")
Or just expose the files via a web server …