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dungun
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Checking the Percent of File being uploaded via /save_url/

Hi , I am uploading a file via /save_url/ . I used /save_url/check_job_status  to check the progress , It only shows "in_progress" . No info about percent of file uploaded .   Any way to know the p...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
The API doesn't offer a way to get the percent progress for these jobs, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
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dungun
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago
there should be a percent progress in /save_url/check_job_status , otherwise it's useless for uploading big files . User won't know when there files will be uploaded . But there are some sites which showing percentage of upload , don't know if they are showing fake progress bar .

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