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amei
Explorer | Level 3
4 months ago

Using javascript to download file from dropbox

I am creating a javascript routine that requires me to download and upload updated files in my dropbox app file folders which contains updated football picks. I am able to upload files to my app but ...
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James_David
Explorer | Level 3
3 months ago

The Dropbox Python SDK can fail to download complete files in Pyodide or xlwings lite. A workaround is to call the Dropbox API for a temporary link and then fetch that link with pyfetch. For example, use files/get_temporary_link to get the URL, then call pyfetch(link, method="GET") and use res.bytes() to get the full file. Uploads with the SDK usually work fine, but for downloads this direct fetch method avoids incomplete files.

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