I have found many posts on how to retrieve the contents of a .txt file from the google drive with their API. I have tried using this:
const drive = google.drive({version: 'v3', auth});
var data = drive.files.get({
fileId: file_id,
alt: "media"
});
data.execute(function(response){
console.log(reponse)
})
My error
data.execute(function(response){
^
TypeError: data.execute is not a function
and also data.then instead of data.execute each time there is an error that I research and find no resolution to it. Could someone please give me an updated version of how to get the contents of a file from the file id? As I think the previous answers are outdated somewhat.
Sorry if this is pretty obvious. I relatively new to javascript and apis in general. So this would help me out a lot as it's the final stretch before I finish my program :)
Thanks, Mathias
When you run 'drive.files.get' for google drive API you receive a promise, and to get data you have to use then on it. This is how it works:
const filePath = `give_path_tosave_file`;
const dest = fs.createWriteStream(filePath);
let progress = 0;
drive.files.get(
{ fileId, alt: 'media' },
{ responseType: 'stream' }
).then(res => {
res.data
.on('end', () => {
console.log('Done downloading file.');
})
.on('error', err => {
console.error('Error downloading file.');
})
.on('data', d => {
d+='';
console.log(d);
//data will be here
// pipe it to write stream
}
})
.pipe(dest);
});
If above solution doesn't work, you can use this one. It is on official google website for doing the same:
var fileId = '1ZdR3L3qP4Bkq8noWLJHSr_iBau0DNT4Kli4SxNc2YEo';
var dest = fs.createWriteStream('/tmp/filename.txt');
drive.files.export({
fileId: fileId,
mimeType: 'application/txt'
})
.on('end', function () {
console.log('Done');
})
.on('error', function (err) {
console.log('Error during download', err);
})
.pipe(dest);
For more info, you should check here.
Also, the below method will return all the files which you have access to in drive.
drive.files.list({}, (err, res) => {
if (err) throw err;
const files = res.data.files;
if (files.length) {
files.map((file) => {
console.log(file);
});
} else {
console.log('No files found');
}
});
Related
noob question, I'm just getting started with Google Drive API v3. How can I download dynamic file from google drive when I only have fileId. file can be, image, pdf, or docs.
I tried searching but I couldn't found any reference or example related to this.
This what I have so far but it only download specific file extension.
downloadFile(req, res) {
const auth = new google.auth.JWT(
client_email,
null,
private_key,
SCOPES,
);
const { fileId } = req.params;
const drive = google.drive({ version: 'v3', auth});
var dest = fs.createWriteStream('./tmp/downloads/dummy.pdf')
drive.files.get({
fileId,
alt: 'media',
}, {
responseType: 'stream'
}).then((driveResponse) => {
driveResponse.data.on('end', () => {
console.log(`downloading fileID ${fileId}`);
})
.on('error', (err) => {
console.log(err);
})
.on('data', (d) => {
console.log(d);
})
.pipe(dest)
})
.catch((err) => {
console.log(err);
})
}
Is there way to download dynamic files from google drive?
I believe your goal as follows.
You want to download the files from Google Drive using the service account and the file ID.
The files include both Google Docs files and the files except for Google Docs files.
You want to achieve this using googleapis for Node.js.
Modification points:
Unfortunately, from it only download specific file extension., I cannot understand about the detail of your situation. But I guess that the reason of your issue might be due to downloading both Google Docs files and the files except for Google Docs files.
When Google Docs files are downloaded, the files are required to be downloaded using the method of "Files: export" in Drive API.
When the files except for Google Docs files are downloaded, the files are required to be downloaded using the method of "Files: get" in Drive API.
I thought that above situation might be the reason of your issue.
In order to download both Google Docs files and the files except for Google Docs files, I propose the following flow.
Check the mimeType of the file ID.
Download the file using each method by the mimeType.
When above points are reflected to your script, it becomes as follows.
Modified script:
From:
var dest = fs.createWriteStream('./tmp/downloads/dummy.pdf')
drive.files.get({
fileId,
alt: 'media',
}, {
responseType: 'stream'
}).then((driveResponse) => {
driveResponse.data.on('end', () => {
console.log(`downloading fileID ${fileId}`);
})
.on('error', (err) => {
console.log(err);
})
.on('data', (d) => {
console.log(d);
})
.pipe(dest)
})
.catch((err) => {
console.log(err);
})
To:
drive.files.get({ fileId, fields: "*" }, async (err, { data }) => {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
return;
}
let filename = data.name;
const mimeType = data.mimeType;
let res;
if (mimeType.includes("application/vnd.google-apps")) {
const convertMimeTypes = {
"application/vnd.google-apps.document": {
type:
"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
ext: ".docx",
},
"application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet": {
type:
"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet",
ext: ".xlsx",
},
"application/vnd.google-apps.presentation": {
type:
"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation",
ext: ".pptx",
},
};
filename += convertMimeTypes[mimeType].ext;
res = await drive.files.export(
{
fileId,
mimeType: convertMimeTypes[mimeType].type,
},
{ responseType: "stream" }
);
} else {
res = await drive.files.get(
{
fileId,
alt: "media",
},
{ responseType: "stream" }
);
}
const dest = fs.createWriteStream(filename);
res.data
.on("end", () => console.log("Done."))
.on("error", (err) => {
console.log(err);
return process.exit();
})
.pipe(dest);
});
Note:
In this modification, I prepared 3 types of Google Docs files at convertMimeTypes. When you want to download other mimeTypes, please modify convertMimeTypes. In this case, for example, Google Docs files are downloaded as Microsoft Docs files.
References:
Download files
Files: get
Files: export
I am trying to build a web app to stream music. I use MongoDB to store the audio, a Node API to connect to the database and a Vuejs frontend. Below is the endpoint which streams the music, based on this article: https://medium.com/#richard534/uploading-streaming-audio-using-nodejs-express-mongodb-gridfs-b031a0bcb20f
trackRoute.get('/:trackID', (req, res) => {
try {
var trackID = new ObjectID(req.params.trackID);
} catch (err) {
return res.status(400).json({ message: "Invalid trackID in URL parameter. Must be a single String of 12 bytes or a string of 24 hex characters" });
}
res.set('content-type', 'audio/mp3');
res.set('accept-ranges', 'bytes');
let bucket = new mongodb.GridFSBucket(db, {
bucketName: 'tracks'
});
let downloadStream = bucket.openDownloadStream(trackID);
downloadStream.on('data', (chunk) => {
res.write(chunk);
});
downloadStream.on('error', () => {
res.sendStatus(404);
});
downloadStream.on('end', () => {
res.end();
});
});
I tested it with Postman and it works there. I am trying to read the stream in my Vuejs application. I'm just not sure how to do it. I tried the following to test it:
const url = 'http://localhost:4343/api/track/6061c90b2658b9001e65311d';
http.get(url, function (res) {
res.on('data', function (buf) {
console.log(buf);
});
res.on('end', function () {
console.log('ended');
});
})
This does not work however. How should I go about reading it in the frontend?
I have two functions in separate files to split up the workflow.
const download = function(url){
const file = fs.createWriteStream("./test.png");
const request = https.get(url, function(response) {
response.pipe(file);
});
}
This function in my fileHelper.js is supposed to take a URL with an image in it and then save it locally to test.png
function uploadFile(filePath) {
fs.readFile('credentials.json', (err, content) => {
if (err) return console.log('Error loading client secret file:', err);
// Authorize a client with credentials, then call the Google Drive API.
authorize(JSON.parse(content), function (auth) {
const drive = google.drive({version: 'v3', auth});
const fileMetadata = {
'name': 'testphoto.png'
};
const media = {
mimeType: 'image/png',
body: fs.createReadStream(filePath)
};
drive.files.create({
resource: fileMetadata,
media: media,
fields: 'id'
}, (err, file) => {
if (err) {
// Handle error
console.error(err);
} else {
console.log('File Id: ', file.id);
}
});
});
});
}
This function in my googleDriveHelper.js is supposed to take the filePath of call and then upload that stream into my google drive. These two functions work on their own but it seems that the https.get works asynchronously and if I try to call the googleDriveHelper.uploadFile(filePath) function after the download, it doesn't have time to get the full file to upload so instead a blank file will be uploaded to my drive.
I want to find a way so that when the fileHelper.download(url) is called, it automatically uploads into my drive.
I also don't know if there is a way to create a readStream directly from the download function to the upload function, so I can avoid having to save the file locally to upload it.
I believe your goal as follows.
You want to upload a file retrieving from an URL to Google Drive.
When you download the file from the URL, you want to upload it to Google Drive without creating the file.
You want to achieve this using googleapis with Node.js.
You have already been able to upload a file using Drive API.
For this, how about this answer?
Modification points:
At download function, the retrieved buffer is converted to the stream type, and the stream data is returned.
At uploadFile function, the retrieved stream data is used for uploading.
When the file ID is retrieved from the response value of Drive API, please use file.data.id instead of file.id.
By above modification, the file downloaded from the URL can be uploaded to Google Drive without creating a file.
Modified script:
When your script is modified, please modify as follows.
download()
const download = function (url) {
return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
request(
{
method: "GET",
url: url,
encoding: null,
},
(err, res, body) => {
if (err && res.statusCode != 200) {
reject(err);
return;
}
const stream = require("stream");
const bs = new stream.PassThrough();
bs.end(body);
resolve(bs);
}
);
});
};
uploadFile()
function uploadFile(data) { // <--- Modified
fs.readFile("drive_credentials.json", (err, content) => {
if (err) return console.log("Error loading client secret file:", err);
authorize(JSON.parse(content), function (auth) {
const drive = google.drive({ version: "v3", auth });
const fileMetadata = {
name: "testphoto.png",
};
const media = {
mimeType: "image/png",
body: data, // <--- Modified
};
drive.files.create(
{
resource: fileMetadata,
media: media,
fields: "id",
},
(err, file) => {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
} else {
console.log("File Id: ", file.data.id); // <--- Modified
}
}
);
});
});
}
For testing
For example, when above scripts are tested, how about the following script?
async function run() {
const url = "###";
const data = await fileHelper.download(url);
googleDriveHelper.uploadFile(data);
}
References:
Class: stream.PassThrough
google-api-nodejs-client
I'm uploading a data stream to Azure Storage,
I would get the link to the blob file.
let insertFile = async function (blobName,stream){
const containerName= 'texttospeechudio';
try{
await blobService.createContainerIfNotExists(containerName, {
publicAccessLevel: 'blob'},(err,result, response) => {
if(!err) {
console.log(result);
}
});
let resultstream = blobService.createWriteStreamToBlockBlob(containerName, blobName,(err,result, response)=>{
console.log(res)
});
stream.pipe(resultstream);
stream.on('error', function (error) {
console.log(error);
});
stream.once('end', function (end) {
console.log(end)
//OK
});
}
catch(err) {
console.log(err);
}
}
I added createWriteStreamToBlockBlob callback , but I'm not getting inside it.
I would find a way to get uploaded file url.
There is no file URL returned in the response according to put-blob's rest spec.
And Azure storage's resource URL can be commonly composed with following pattern:
https://{myaccount}.blob.core.windows.net/{mycontainer}/{myblob}
I'm using the excellent Request library for downloading files in Node for a small command line tool I'm working on. Request works perfectly for pulling in a single file, no problems at all, but it's not working for ZIPs.
For example, I'm trying to download the Twitter Bootstrap archive, which is at the URL:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/bootstrap.zip
The relevant part of the code is:
var fileUrl = "http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/bootstrap.zip";
var output = "bootstrap.zip";
request(fileUrl, function(err, resp, body) {
if(err) throw err;
fs.writeFile(output, body, function(err) {
console.log("file written!");
}
}
I've tried setting the encoding to "binary" too but no luck. The actual zip is ~74KB, but when downloaded through the above code it's ~134KB and on double clicking in Finder to extract it, I get the error:
Unable to extract "bootstrap" into "nodetest" (Error 21 - Is a directory)
I get the feeling this is an encoding issue but not sure where to go from here.
Yes, the problem is with encoding. When you wait for the whole transfer to finish body is coerced to a string by default. You can tell request to give you a Buffer instead by setting the encoding option to null:
var fileUrl = "http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/bootstrap.zip";
var output = "bootstrap.zip";
request({url: fileUrl, encoding: null}, function(err, resp, body) {
if(err) throw err;
fs.writeFile(output, body, function(err) {
console.log("file written!");
});
});
Another more elegant solution is to use pipe() to point the response to a file writable stream:
request('http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/bootstrap.zip')
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('bootstrap.zip'))
.on('close', function () {
console.log('File written!');
});
A one liner always wins :)
pipe() returns the destination stream (the WriteStream in this case), so you can listen to its close event to get notified when the file was written.
I was searching about a function which request a zip and extract it without create any file inside my server, here is my TypeScript function, it use JSZIP module and Request:
let bufs : any = [];
let buf : Uint8Array;
request
.get(url)
.on('end', () => {
buf = Buffer.concat(bufs);
JSZip.loadAsync(buf).then((zip) => {
// zip.files contains a list of file
// chheck JSZip documentation
// Example of getting a text file : zip.file("bla.txt").async("text").then....
}).catch((error) => {
console.log(error);
});
})
.on('error', (error) => {
console.log(error);
})
.on('data', (d) => {
bufs.push(d);
})