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Trying to get a stream link of a video file from GDRIVE API

I'm trying to get a stream link for my video files to stream it on my web app from google drive api, but its not working properly. I have double checked the docs for any errors in syntax and i can't seem to find any.
for context here is my code:
`
drive.files.get({fileId: myfileId,alt: 'media'},{responseType: 'stream'}, (err, res) => {
if (err) return console.log(`The API returned an error: ${err}`);
console.log(res)
});
`
I'm getting a passthrough object in res.data field and its giving an error of "Unknown output format: 'media' ". The file i'm trying to stream is a .mp4 file.
I have also double checked my authentication and its working fine because i was able to retrieve my folder id and file id using the api.
Am i doing anything wrong here? Any help would be appreciated.
THANKS.

Once you have authenticated the client library, you can use the following code to get a stream link for a video file stored in Google Drive
// Replace fileId with the ID of the video file you want to stream
const fileId = '1234567890';
// Get the file from Google Drive
const file = await drive.files.get({ fileId, alt: 'media' });
// Get the stream link for the file
const streamLink = file.data;

Reading file attachments (Ex; .txt file) - Discord.JS

Second time posting on StackOverflow so I apologize for any mistakes.
Please bear with me.
Same with the title; How do you read contents of a discord attachment let's say a .txt file and print the contents?
I have tried with fs but unfortunately failed and I have also searched the documentation but failed also.
Ideas?

You can't use the fs module for this as it only deals with local files. When you upload a file to the Discord server, it gets uploaded to a CDN and all you can do is grab the URL of this file from the MessageAttachment using the url property.
If you need to get a file from the web, you can fetch it from a URL using the built-in https module, or you can install one from npm, like the one I used below, node-fetch.
To install node-fetch, run npm i node-fetch in your root folder.
Check out the working code below, it works fine with text files:
const { Client } = require('discord.js');
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const client = new Client();
client.on('message', async (message) => {
if (message.author.bot) return;
// get the file's URL
const file = message.attachments.first()?.url;
if (!file) return console.log('No attached file found');
try {
message.channel.send('Reading the file! Fetching data...');
// fetch the file from the external URL
const response = await fetch(file);
// if there was an error send a message with the status
if (!response.ok)
return message.channel.send(
'There was an error with fetching the file:',
response.statusText,
);
// take the response stream and read it to completion
const text = await response.text();
if (text) {
message.channel.send(`\`\`\`${text}\`\`\``);
}
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
});

reply to #Andryxa, maybe you can use this with external APIs like a transcription service in case of audio files or to send requests to already created bots from services like dialogflow to replies to the messages

Downloading a zip file from a given path in express api + react

So I'm completely lost at this point. I have had a mixture of success and failure but I can't for the life of me get this working. So I'm building up a zip file and storing it in a folder structure that's based on uploadRequestIds and that all works fine. I'm fairly new to the node but all I want is to take the file that was built up which is completely valid and works if you open it once it's been constructed in the backend and then send that on to the client.
const prepareRequestForDownload = (dirToStoreRequestData, requestId) => {
const output = fs.createWriteStream(dirToStoreRequestData + `/Content-${requestId}.zip`);
const zip = archiver('zip', { zlib: { level: 9 } });
output.on('close', () => { console.log('archiver has been finalized.'); });
zip.on('error', (err) => { throw err; });
zip.pipe(output);
zip.directory(dirToStoreRequestData, false);
zip.finalize();
}
This is My function that builds up a zip file from all the files in a given directory and then stores it in said directory.
all I thought I would need to do is set some headers to have an attachment disposition type and create a read stream of the zip file into the res.send function and then react would be able to save the content. but that just doesn't seem to be the case. How should this be handled on both the API side from reading the zip and sending to the react side of receiving the response and the file auto-downloading/requesting a user saves the file.
This is what the temp structure looks like

There is some strategies to resolve it, all browser when you redirect to URL where extension ending with .zip, normally start downloading. What you can do is to return to your client the path for download something like that.
http://api.site.com.br/my-file.zip
and then you can use:
window.open('URL here','_blank')

AWS S3 File Download from the client-side

I am currently trying to download the file from the s3 bucket using a button from the front-end. How is it possible to do this? I don't have any idea on how to start this thing. I have tried researching and researching, but no luck -- all I have searched are about UPLOADING files to the s3 bucket but not DOWNLOADING files. Thanks in advance.
NOTE: I am applying it to ReactJS (Frontend) and NodeJS (Backend) and also, the file is uploaded using Webmerge
UPDATE: I am trying to generate a download link with this (Tried node even if I'm not a backend dev) (lol)
see images below
what I have tried so far
onClick function

If the file you are trying to download is not public then you have to create a signed url to get that file.
The solution is here Javascript to download a file from amazon s3 bucket?
for getting non public files, which revolves around creating a lambda function that will generate a signed url for you then use that url to download the file on button click
BUT if the file you are trying to download you is public then you don't need a signed url, you just need to know the path to the file, the urls are structured like: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ [file path]/[filename]
They is also aws amplify its created and maintain by AWS team.
Just follow Get started and downloading the file from your react app is simply as:
Storage.get('hello.png', {expires: 60})
.then(result => console.log(result))
.catch(err => console.log(err));

Here is my solution:
let downloadImage = url => {
let urlArray = url.split("/")
let bucket = urlArray[3]
let key = `${urlArray[4]}/${urlArray[5]}`
let s3 = new AWS.S3({ params: { Bucket: bucket }})
let params = {Bucket: bucket, Key: key}
s3.getObject(params, (err, data) => {
let blob=new Blob([data.Body], {type: data.ContentType});
let link=document.createElement('a');
link.href=window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
link.download=url;
link.click();
})
}
The url in the argument refers to the url of the S3 file.
Just put this in the onClick method of your button. You will also need the AWS SDK

sending file to client for download

Hello I am trying to send a file from my express server to my front end to allow the user to download it when they click a button. I've created a route on the backend the sends over the byte array but I dont have the slightest idea of how to allow the user to download it.
what I'm trying to do here is allow one user to upload a file directly to my server then another user comes and downloads the file that was uploaded on a previous date.
i've gotten the upload part to work fine. now I'm just missing direction for the download part.
here is my express route being hit.
const path = require('path');
const getFile = (req, res) => {
const filePath = path.join(__dirname, '../../../', req.query.file);
console.log(filePath);
res.download(filePath);
};
here is my onClick for my frontEnd function
download(file) {
axios.get('/api/download/getFile', {
params: {
file,
},
})
.then(data =>{
console.log(data);
window.open(data.data);
})
}
and this is the error i keep on getting when i click the button
Unable to open a window with invalid URL
make sense to me because I'm not getting a url I'm getting a byte array

Try this -
window.open('/api/download/getFile?file=yourfile');