Apparent cloud access for hosted content items

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to perform:

• obtaining, from a server of an online content management system over a network, identifiers of content item blocks that make up a content item;
• receiving, at the computing device, a request for the content item from a web browser at the computing device;
• based, at least in part, on the obtaining, from a server of the online content management system over a network, the identifiers of the content item blocks that make up the content item, identifying one or more content item blocks, of the content item blocks that make up the content item, that are stored in a local storage of the computing device;
• based, at least in part, on the identifying the one or more content item blocks, of the content item blocks that make up the content item, that are stored in a local storage of the computing device, downloading, from a server over a network, one or more of the content item blocks that are not stored in the local storage of the computing device;
• and
• providing, to the web browser, the content items blocks that make up the content item.

A computing device, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• local storage;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform:
• obtaining, from a server of an online content management system over a network, identifiers of content item blocks that make up a content item;
• receiving a request for the content item from a user agent at the computing device;
• based, at least in part, on the obtaining, from a server of the online content management system over a network, the identifiers of the content item blocks that make up the content item, identifying one or more content item blocks, of the content item blocks that make up the content item, that are stored in the local storage of the computing device;
• based, at least in part, on the identifying the one or more content item blocks, of the content item blocks that make up the content item, that are stored in a local storage of the computing device, downloading, from a server of the online content management system, one or more content items blocks, of the content item blocks that make up the content item, that are not stored in the local storage of the computing device;
• and
• streaming, to the user agent, the content items blocks that make up the content item.