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downloading a large file using python v2 API
Dear Dropboxers,
would it be possible to see an example for large file download, equivalent to https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/205544836-python-upload-big-file-example for the...
It is already implemented in the Java SDK.
(It is also implemented in the API v1 Python client, but I can't recommend using that as it's deprecated.)
If you wanted to implement it manually, or modify the Python SDK, here's a sample of what it would look like in curl for reference:
curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
--header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/test.txt\"}" \
--header "Range:bytes=0-2"That would download just the first 3 bytes of the file at /test.txt.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi Matt, it sounds like your request may actually be slightly different than what was being discussed on this thread. We were talking about downloading files in distinct chunks (similar to the chunked upload), but it sounds like you want to be able to stream the download as desired, like you currently do with the get_file method.
I believe the files_download method does already work the same way as that though. It returns a requests.models.Response object on which you can call iter_content to iterate over the content, streaming it off the connection.
That would look something like:
metadata, res = dbx.files_download(path)
for data in res.iter_content(10):
print(data)
Hope this helps!
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