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How to save pictures inside an array and then display
Hi,
In my vue application I am trying to download pictures from my dropbox account. So far I can get the metadata but I want to get the images and save them inside an array and then display them on my application. How could I do that? This is my code to download / get the information.
getImages() {
const Dropbox = require("dropbox").Dropbox;
let pictures2 = [];
const dbx = new Dropbox({
accessToken: 'ACCESS_TOKEN'
});
dbx.filesDownload({
path: "/test/road-6576857_1920.jpg"
}).then(function(response) {
console.log(response)
},
)}
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69320818/how-to-download-dropbox-pictures-locally-to-a-folder-with-javascript ]
Exactly how you save/display them depends on your app/environment, but the filesDownload method is the right way to download a file's data from Dropbox. You can get the resulting data from the response as shown in this example for a browser environment, and this example for a node environment.
Thanks for the reply. The one for the browser does not open, I looked at the one for the node environment but the problem is, that I do not have FileBinary for example and name is only accessible in my case with response.result.name. Is it due to the different methods we use?
- Greg-DB
Apologies, I've fixed the first link.
Depending on the type of environment, the file data itself will be available in either the object's 'fileBlob' or 'fileBinary' property.
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