I have a Google Sheet with a list of URLs for files - roughly 900 entries, maybe 95% PDFs with a few .docs and .docxs in there as well.
I would like to upload every file to a Google Drive folder - ideally a shared folder within my employer's workspace - retaining the filename, which I also have in the sheet.
I have found some near-answers on here, but they use deprecated Google Scripts methods.
For example:
var urlOfThePdf = 'http://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/tech_support/pdfs/280_owners_manual.pdf';// an example of online pdf file
var folderName = 'GAS';// an example of folder name
function saveInDriveFolder(){
var folder = DocsList.getFolder(folderName);// get the folde
var file = UrlFetchApp.fetch(urlOfThePdf); // get the file content as blob
folder.createFile(file);//create the file directly in the folder
}
fails at getFileFromURL.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
This piece of code will save the the pdf into the desired folder:
var urlOfThePdf = '';// an example of online pdf file
var folderName = '';// an example of folder name
function saveInDriveFolder(){
var folders = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(folderName);
var file = UrlFetchApp.fetch(urlOfThePdf);
while (folders.hasNext()) {
var folder = folders.next();
folder.createFile(file);
}
}
It uses the DriveApp.getFoldersByName() method to fetch all folders with that name, UrlFetchApp.fetch() to fetch the pdf and folder.createFile() to save the pdf in the folder.
Note that DriveApp.getFoldersByName() fetches a folder iterator (all the folders in your Drive with that name). In this code, I am iterating through all the folders with that name and saving the pdf in all of them.
I would recommend using Drive.getFolderById() and supplying the id of your desired folder (can be extracted from the url). Using this, you will only save the pdf in one folder and you will not have to iterate though the folders in the code (the whole while loop can be replace by: folder.createFile(file);).
These are great guides for migrating between the different versions of NuGet package:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/Azure.Storage.Blobs_12.6.0/sdk/storage/Azure.Storage.Blobs/README.md
https://elcamino.cloud/articles/2020-03-30-azure-storage-blobs-net-sdk-v12-upgrade-guide-and-tips.html
However I am struggling to migrate the following concepts in my code:
// Return if a directory exists:
container.GetDirectoryReference(path).ListBlobs().Any();
where GetDirectoryReference is not understood and there appears to be no direct translation.
Also, the concept of a CloudBlobDirectory does not appear to have made it into Azure.Storage.Blobs e.g.
private static long GetDirectorySize(CloudBlobDirectory directoryBlob) {
long size = 0;
foreach (var blobItem in directoryBlob.ListBlobs()) {
if (blobItem is BlobClient)
size += ((BlobClient) blobItem).GetProperties().Value.ContentLength;
if (blobItem is CloudBlobDirectory)
size += GetDirectorySize((CloudBlobDirectory) blobItem);
}
return size;
}
where CloudBlobDirectory does not appear anywhere in the API.
There's no such thing as physical directories or folders in Azure Blob Storage. The directories you sometimes see are part of the blob (e.g. folder1/folder2/file1.txt). The List Blobs requests allows you to add a prefix and delimiter in a call, which are used by the Azure Portal and Azure Data Explorer to create a visualization of folders. As example prefix folder1/ and delimiter / would allow you to see the content as if folder1 was opened.
That's exactly what happens in your code. The GetDirectoryReference() adds a prefix. The ListBlobs() fires a request and Any() checks if any items return.
For V12 the command that'll allow you to do the same would be GetBlobsByHierarchy and its async version. In your particular case where you only want to know if any blobs exist in the directory a GetBlobs with prefix would also suffice.
I have an XML file that specifies the image files that I need to load. The XML file and the image files live in a subfolder relative to where the AIR app lives.
I need to load the XML file and also the images (load them and add them as children to a movieclip)
In my AIR app, when I tried to load it via the URLRequest, it didn't work.
myLoader = new URLLoader();
myLoader.load(new URLRequest(xmlFilename));
myLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
(I know this works from a .swf b/c I've tested it)
I've found some sample which uses the File class and here's my code and this does work:
var aFile:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath( xmlFilename );
var aStream:FileStream = new FileStream();
aStream.open( aFile, FileMode.READ );
configXML = new XML( aStream.readUTFBytes( aStream.bytesAvailable ) );
aStream.close();
processXML();
...
I'm now trying to load the images specified in the XML file and I'm finding that I have to use the File class to reference the image in the file system.
var engImageFile:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath( "./english/"+ engFilename );
ldr = new Loader();
var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest( engImageFile.url );
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, engImgLoaded );
ldr.load(urlReq);
Is this the way that AIR accesses files (using the File class) when it wants to read/load/etc. them?
if I understand your question correctly, I belive you just need to load it as a data source/array, which you can then bind to a component of your choosing.
In the documentation it states that if you use the File class to access files then this is safe across all platforms. Also the .url property of the File object will use the appropriate URL scheme...
"app:" - relative to the application directory
"app-storage:" - relative to the special application storage directory
"file:" - all else...I think if you specify an absolute path
I want to add Folder in my amazon s3 bucket using coding.
Can you please suggest me how to achieve this?
There are no folders in Amazon S3. It just that most of the S3 browser tools available show part of the key name separated by slash as a folder.
If you really need that you can create an empty object with the slash at the end. e.g. "folder/" It will looks like a folder if you open it with a GUI tool and AWS Console.
As everyone has told you, in AWS S3 there aren't any "folders", you're thinking of them incorrectly. AWS S3 has "objects", these objects can look like folders but they aren't really folders in the fullest sense of the word. If you look for creating folders on the Amazon AWS S3 you won't find a lot of good results.
There is a way to create "folders" in the sense that you can create a simulated folder structure on the S3, but again, wrap your head around the fact that you are creating objects in S3, not folders. Going along with that, you will need the command "put-object" to create this simulated folder structure. Now, in order to use this command, you need the AWS CLI tools installed, go here AWS CLI Installation for instructions to get them installed.
The command is this:
aws s3api put-object --bucket your-bucket-name --key path/to/file/yourfile.txt --body yourfile.txt
Now, the fun part about this command is, you do not need to have all of the "folders" (objects) created before you run this command. What this means is you can have a "folder" (object) to contain things, but then you can use this command to create the simulated folder structure within that "folder" (object) as I discussed earlier. For example, I have a "folder" (object) named "importer" within my S3 bucket, lets say I want to insert sample.txt within a "folder" (object) structure of the year, month, and then a sample "folder" (object) within all of that.
If I only have the "importer" object within my bucket, I do not need to go in beforehand to create the year, month, and sample objects ("folders") before running this command. I can run this command like so:
aws s3api put-object --bucket my-bucket-here --key importer/2016/01/sample/sample.txt --body sample.txt
The put-object command will then go in and create the path that I have specified in the --key flag. Here's a bit of a jewel: even if you don't have a file to upload to the S3, you can still create objects ("folders") within the S3 bucket, for example, I created a shell script to "create folders" within the bucket, by leaving off the --body flag, and not specifying a file name, and leaving a slash at the end of the path provided in the --key flag, the system creates the desired simulated folder structure within the S3 bucket without inserting a file in the process.
Hopefully this helps you understand the system a little better.
Note: once you have a "folder" structure created, you can use the S3's "sync" command to syncronize the descendant "folder" with a folder on your local machine, or even with another S3 bucket.
Java with AWS SDK:
There are no folders in s3, only key/value pairs. The key can contain slashes (/) and that will make it appear as a folder in management console, but programmatically it's not a folder it is a String value.
If you are trying to structure your s3 bucket, then your naming conventions (the keys you give your files) can simply follow normal directory patterns, i.e. folder/subfolder/file.txt.
When searching (depending on language you are using), you can search via prefix with a delimiter. In Java, it would be a listObjects(String storageBucket, String prefix, String delimiter) method call.
The storageBucket is the name of your bucket, the prefix is the key you want to search, and the delimiter is used to filter your search based off the prefix.
The AWS:S3 rails gem does this by itself:
AWS::S3::S3Object.store("teaser/images/troll.png", file, AWS_BUCKET)
Will automatically create the teaser and images "folders" if they don't already exist.
With AWS SDK .Net works perfectly, just add "/" at the end of the name folder:
var folderKey = folderName + "/"; //end the folder name with "/"
AmazonS3 client = Amazon.AWSClientFactory.CreateAmazonS3Client(AWSAccessKey, AWSSecretKey);
var request = new PutObjectRequest();
request.WithBucketName(AWSBucket);
request.WithKey(folderKey);
request.WithContentBody(string.Empty);
S3Response response = client.PutObject(request);
Then refresh your AWS console, and you will see the folder
With aws cli, it is possible to copy an entire folder to a bucket.
aws s3 cp /path/to/folder s3://bucket/path/to/folder --recursive
There is also the option to sync a folder using aws s3 sync
This is a divisive topic, so here is a screenshot in 2019 of the AWS S3 console for adding folders and the note:
When you create a folder, S3 console creates an object with the above
name appended by suffix "/" and that object is displayed as a folder
in the S3 console.
Then 'using coding' you can simply adjust the object name by prepending a valid folder name string and a forward slash.
For Swift I created a method where you pass in a String for the folder name.
Swift 3:
import AWSS3
func createFolderWith(Name: String!) {
let folderRequest: AWSS3PutObjectRequest = AWSS3PutObjectRequest()
folderRequest.key = Name + "/"
folderRequest.bucket = bucket
AWSS3.default().putObject(folderRequest).continue({ (task) -> Any? in
if task.error != nil {
assertionFailure("* * * error: \(task.error?.localizedDescription)")
} else {
print("created \(Name) folder")
}
return nil
})
}
Then just call
createFolderWith(Name:"newFolder")
In iOS (Objective-C), I did following way
You can add below code to create a folder inside amazon s3 bucket programmatically. This is working code snippet. Any suggestion Welcome.
-(void)createFolder{
AWSS3PutObjectRequest *awsS3PutObjectRequest = [AWSS3PutObjectRequest new];
awsS3PutObjectRequest.key = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#/", #"FolderName"];
awsS3PutObjectRequest.bucket = #"Bucket_Name";
AWSS3 *awsS3 = [AWSS3 defaultS3];
[awsS3 putObject:awsS3PutObjectRequest completionHandler:^(AWSS3PutObjectOutput * _Nullable response, NSError * _Nullable error) {
if (error) {
NSLog(#"error Creating folder");
}else{
NSLog(#"Folder Creating Sucessful");
}
}];
}
Here's how you can achieve what you're looking for (from code/cli):
--create/select the file (locally) which you want to move to the folder:
~/Desktop> touch file_to_move
--move the file to s3 folder by executing:
~/Desktop> aws s3 cp file_to_move s3://<path_to_your_bucket>/<new_folder_name>/
A new folder will be created on your s3 bucket and you'll now be able to execute cp, mv, rm ... statements i.e. manage the folder as usual.
If this new file created above is not required, simply delete it. You now have an s3 bucket created.
You can select language of your choice from available AWS SDK
Alternatively you can try minio client libraries available in Python, Go, .Net, Java, Javascript for your application development environment, it has example directory with all basic operations listed.
Disclaimer: I work for Minio
In swift 2.2 you can create folder using
func createFolderWith(Name: String!) {
let folderRequest: AWSS3PutObjectRequest = AWSS3PutObjectRequest()
folderRequest.key = Name + "/"
folderRequest.bucket = "Your Bucket Name"
AWSS3.defaultS3().putObject(folderRequest).continueWithBlock({ (task) -> AnyObject? in
if task.error != nil {
assertionFailure("* * * error: \(task.error?.localizedDescription)")
} else {
print("created \(Name) folder")
}
return nil
})
}
Below creates a empty directory called "mydir1".
Below is nodejs code, it should be similar for other languages.
The trick is to have slash (/) at the end of the name of object, as in "mydir1/", otherwise a file with name "mydir1" will be created.
let AWS = require('aws-sdk');
AWS.config.loadFromPath(__dirname + '\\my-aws-config.json');
let s3 = new AWS.S3();
var params = {
Bucket: "mybucket1",
Key: "mydir1/",
ServerSideEncryption: "AES256" };
s3.putObject(params, function (err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
return;
} else {
console.log(data); // successful response
return;
/*
data = {
ETag: "\"6805f2cfc46c0f04559748bb039d69ae\"",
ServerSideEncryption: "AES256",
VersionId: "Ri.vC6qVlA4dEnjgRV4ZHsHoFIjqEMNt"
}
*/
} });
Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/S3.html#putObject-property
in-order to create a directory inside s3 bucket and copy contents inside that is pretty simple.
S3 command can be used:
aws s3 cp abc/def.txt s3://mybucket/abc/
Note: / is must that makes the directory, otherwise it will become a file in s3.
I guess your query is just simply creating a folder inside folder(subfolder).
so while coping any directory data inside a bucket sub folder use command like this.
aws s3 cp mudit s3://mudit-bucket/Projects-folder/mudit-subfolder --recursive
It will create a subfolder and put ur directory contents in it. Also once your subfolder data gets empty. Your Subfolder will automatically gets deleted.
You can use copy command to create a folder while copy a file.
aws s3 cp test.xml s3://mybucket/myfolder/test.xml
I'm working on a blackberry application which do some file handling, I would like to know how I can check a specific folder and delete only files with a specific extension. For example, I only want to delete my .log files.
Please, spend some time studying the FileConnection API. It has everything you need.
FileConnection dir = (FileConnection) Connector.open(path);
Enumeration dirContent = dir.list("*.*", true);
FileConnection file = (FileConnection) Connector.open(filePath);
if (file.exists()) {
file.delete();
}