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ranstyr
9 years agoNew member | Level 2
download excel file via API & webhock and save it locally
Hi All,
The feature I am trying to implement is once customer updates a file, We will download the file and extract some data from it.
We implement Dropbox webhook - https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/webhooks.
(using Phyton).
We are getting to
f, metadat = client.get_file_and_metadata(path)
We are trying to save the file to our firebase database (as our code runs on Node).
storageFile = storage.put(f)
and getting
ValueError: total bytes could not be determined. Please pass an explicit size.
Any Advice?
Thanks,
Ran.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Is the get_file_and_metadata call running successfully? It sounds like that error message is coming from your Firebase database method, so I'm afraid I can't be of much help here. You may want to refer to the documentation/support channels for that instead.
Also, note that you're using Dropbox API v1, which is deprecated. You should migrate to API v2.
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