diff --git a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/api/native-api.rst b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/api/native-api.rst
index 9f422f83c72..8b902771eba 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/api/native-api.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/api/native-api.rst
@@ -795,7 +795,10 @@ View Dataset Files and Folders as a Directory Index
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-  curl $SERVER_URL/api/datasets/$ID/dirindex/
+  curl $SERVER_URL/api/datasets/${ID}/dirindex/
+  # or
+  curl ${SERVER_URL}/api/datasets/:persistentId/dirindex?persistentId=doi:${PERSISTENT_ID}
+
 
 Optional parameters:
 
@@ -867,7 +870,9 @@ An example of a ``wget`` command line for crawling ("recursive downloading") of
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-  wget -r -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=3 --content-disposition https://demo.dataverse.org/api/datasets/24/dirindex/
+  wget -r -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=3 --content-disposition https://demo.dataverse.org/api/datasets/${ID}/dirindex/
+  # or
+  wget -r -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=3 --content-disposition https://demo.dataverse.org/api/datasets/:persistentId/dirindex?persistentId=doi:${PERSISTENT_ID}
 
 .. note:: In addition to the files and folders in the dataset, the command line above will also save the directory index of each folder, in a separate folder "dirindex".
 
@@ -3487,5 +3492,3 @@ Recursively applies the role assignments of the specified Dataverse collection,
   GET http://$SERVER/api/admin/dataverse/{dataverse alias}/addRoleAssignmentsToChildren
   
 Note: setting ``:InheritParentRoleAssignments`` will automatically trigger inheritance of the parent Dataverse collection's role assignments for a newly created Dataverse collection. Hence this API call is intended as a way to update existing child Dataverse collections or to update children after a change in role assignments has been made on a parent Dataverse collection.
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