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dropbox file download - dbx.filesDownload
var dbx = new Dropbox({ accessToken: dbx_access_token , fetch}); await dbx.filesDownload({ path: dbx_path }).then(async (response) => { console.log("down"); awa...
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await dbx.filesListFolder({ path: '' }), it prints Regulatory (which is a folder in the application folder - and the permission scope is application)
but , await dbx.filesListFolder({ path: '/Regulatory' }), await dbx.filesListFolder({ path: 'Regulatory' }), await dbx.filesListFolder({ path: 'Regulatory/' }) gives 0 entries with an error like this " error: `Error in call to API function "files/list_folder": request body: path: 'Regulatory/' did not match pattern '(/(.|[\\r\\n])*)?|id:.*|(ns:[0-9]+(/.*)?)'` " .
thanks also i need help with saving the downloaded file to a selected location...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorTshaniii Здравко is correct, that error is indicating that you didn't provide a valid path format. It's best to take the path value from another API call result, e.g., an entry's 'path_lower' value, but if you write the path value manually it would be of the form '/Regulatory'.
When listing a folder like that, it will return an empty list of entries if the folder is empty.
The File Access Guide may be a helpful reference for how to interact with the Dropbox filesystem.
I added as
var dbx = new Dropbox({ accessToken: dbx_access_token , fetch});console.log(document.Folder.name);await dbx.filesListFolder({ path: `/${document.Folder.name}` }).then((response) => {console.log(response.result.entries);console.log('Files and folders in your Dropbox account:', response);response.result.entries.forEach((entry) => {console.log(entry.name, document.title);if ((entry.name).toString() === (document.title).toString()) {let file_id = entry.id;console.log(file_id);dbx.filesDownload({path: `${file_id}`}).then(async (response) => {console.log("down");await response.pipe(temporaryFileStream);}).catch((error) => {console.log(error);});}console.log(entry.name);});}).catch((error) => {console.error(error);});This code may not be correct as if the folder has subfolders it might not correctly give the entries. So please suggest me how to do this?TypeError: res.buffer is not a function
at D:\GitHubProjects\docMgtSys\document-management-system\node_modules\dropbox\cjs\src\response.js:67:11
at new Promise (<anonymous>)
at parseDownloadResponse (D:\GitHubProjects\docMgtSys\document-management-system\node_modules\dropbox\cjs\src\response.js:61:10)
at D:\GitHubProjects\docMgtSys\document-management-system\node_modules\dropbox\cjs\src\dropbox.js:146:52
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)I am urgent in completing this feature. Would you be able to please help me in this.
1. App permissions
2. DocFlowController is the app name
3. has 7 folders, History is one of them
4. Inside history there will be subfolders and in them there will be files. sometimes there will be no subfolders but straightaway files.
5. so i want a code to view these files in a editor or somewhere.... i prefer editor becuase there is another feature i implement to open and edit....
please give me a code sample for this. would be a great help! 🙂
- Greg-DB
Tshaniii Calling filesListFolder alone is not guaranteed to give you all of the results. You need to use filesListFolderContinue as well. Check out the documentation for more information. You can set FilesListFolderArg.recursive to true when calling filesListFolder if you want to list nested entries too.
As for the "TypeError: res.buffer is not a function" error, I'm not sure when/how that's occurring. It doesn't seem to reproduce for me. That's presumably related to the link you currently shared as "await response.pipe(temporaryFileStream);" though. If you're trying to access the file data, that would be in "response.result.fileBinary". If you want to save that to the local filesystem, you should refer to the Node.js filesystem documentation for information on how to do so.
- var dbx = new Dropbox({ accessToken: dbx_access_token , fetch});console.log(document.Folder.name);await dbx.filesListFolder({ path: `/${document.Folder.name}` }).then(async (response) => {console.log(response.result.entries);console.log('Files and folders in your Dropbox account:', response);response.result.entries.forEach(async (entry) => {console.log(entry.name, document.title);if ((entry.name).toString() === (document.title).toString()) {let file_id = entry.id;console.log(file_id);await dbx.filesDownload({path: `${file_id}`}).then( (response) => {console.log("down");const data = response.result.fileBinary;fs.writeFile(filename, data, (err) => {if (err) throw err;console.log('File saved!');});}).catch((error) => {console.log(error);});}console.log(entry.name);});}).catch((error) => {console.error(error);});return successMessage(res, 'Document viewed successfully');} catch (err) {next(err);}};so this is all i have in my code and the error i get is ,TypeError: res.buffer is not a function
at D:\GitHubProjects\docMgtSys\document-management-system\node_modules\dropbox\cjs\src\response.js:67:11
at new Promise (<anonymous>)
at parseDownloadResponse (D:\GitHubProjects\docMgtSys\document-management-system\node_modules\dropbox\cjs\src\response.js:61:10)
at D:\GitHubProjects\docMgtSys\document-management-system\node_modules\dropbox\cjs\src\dropbox.js:146:52
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async D:\GitHubProjects\docMgtSys\document-management-system\controllers\document-controller.js:170:11when i useI get error: `Error in call to API function "files/list_folder/continue": request body: unknown field 'path'`await dbx.filesListFolderContinue({ path: `/${document.Folder.name}` }),
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