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fapb88ve
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
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...
- 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)
Greg-DB
8 years agoDropbox Staff
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)
- hilaal_leo7 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hi Greg
metadata, f = dropbox.file_download_details('/test.pdf')
out = open('test.pdf', 'wb')
out.write(f.content)
out.close()I am getting the following error in terminal
metadata, f = dropbox.file_download_details('/test.pdf')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'file_download_details'
Thanks in advance
- Greg-DB7 years agoDropbox Staff
hilaal_leo The official Python SDK doesn't have a `file_download_details` method. Please refer to my earlier posts in this thread for examples of how to download files using the SDK. There's also an example included with the SDK here.
- JatinSingh20127 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hi Greg,
I am currently reading multiple files by a for loop and I dont want to keep saving these pdfs on my desktop and then reading them. Is there a way around this where I dont need to download the file?
- Greg-DB7 years agoDropbox Staff
JatinSingh2012 Yes, you can use the files_download method to read the file data without saving it to the local filesystem, like the example here.
- hosamsandid6 years agoNew member | Level 2
what dose the letter j means??
- Greg-DB6 years agoDropbox Staff
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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