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fapb88ve
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Downloading a file from using the Python Dropbox API

Hello,   Sorry for the basic question. I'm updating the code I had for the V1 Python API and I'm having a trouble with the download function. Originally I used the following: f, metadata = clie...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    8 years ago

    The files_download method is the closest to what you were using. The files_download_to_file method takes an extra parameter for saving the file locally for you.

     

    So either of these should be equivalent to your old code:

     

    metadata, f = dbx.files_download('/'+ j)
out = open(j, 'wb')
out.write(f.content)
out.close()

     

    or just

     

    dbx.files_download_to_file(j, '/'+ j)
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hosamsandid
New member | Level 2

what dose the letter j means??

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

hosamsandid The variable 'j' was used in the original code sample shared in this thread, but the definition of its value wasn't shown. In that context though, it would've just been a file name, like "example.jpg". 

It was used both on the Dropbox API, formatted as "/example.jpg", for instance, and to open a local file.

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