Chilkat2-Python

Download Binary File to In-Memory Bytes

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This example demonstrates how to download the binary content of a file from Google Drive directly into local memory. Chilkat2-Python

import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

success = True

# It requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

# This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the 
# Google Drive scope.

gAuth = chilkat2.AuthGoogle()
gAuth.AccessToken = "GOOGLE-DRIVE-ACCESS-TOKEN"

rest = chilkat2.Rest()

# Connect using TLS.
# A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Google Drive REST API calls.
# The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
# then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("www.googleapis.com",443,True,bAutoReconnect)

# Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
rest.SetAuthGoogle(gAuth)

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# To download a file, we must know the file ID.
# In a previous example (see Build Local Metadata Cache
# we built a local cache to make it easy to lookup file IDs given a file path.
# Let's say we want to download "testFolder/abc/123/penguins.jpg".
# First we lookup the fileId in the cache.  With the fileId, we can download the file.
gdCache = chilkat2.Cache()
gdCache.Level = 0
gdCache.AddRoot("C:/ckCache/googleDrive")

fileId = gdCache.FetchText("testFolder/abc/123/penguins.jpg")
if (gdCache.LastMethodSuccess != True):
    print("Filepath not found in cache.")
    sys.exit()

# We need to send a GET request like this:
# GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/fileId?alt=media
# The fileId is part of the path.
sbPath = chilkat2.StringBuilder()
sbPath.Append("/drive/v3/files/")
sbPath.Append(fileId)
rest.AddQueryParam("alt","media")

# To download to memory, we'll send the request in one call, then receive
# the response header, and then the response body.
# If the response header indicates failure or an unexpected response, then the
# body is not the data we desire.

# First send the HTTP request.
success = rest.SendReqNoBody("GET",sbPath.GetAsString())
if (success != True):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Get the response header.
statusCode = rest.ReadResponseHeader()
if (statusCode != 200):
    print("response status code = " + str(rest.ResponseStatusCode))
    print("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText)
    print("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader)

    # Read the response body (which should be error text or HTML)
    errResponseBody = rest.ReadRespBodyString()
    if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == True):
        print("response body: " + errResponseBody)

    sys.exit()

# Read the response body, which should contain the file data.

# jpgBytes is a memoryview
jpgBytes = rest.ReadRespBodyBinary()
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != True):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Save jpgBytes to a file so we can examine the file to verify that it worked.
fac = chilkat2.FileAccess()
fac.WriteEntireFile("qa_output/penguins_out.jpg",jpgBytes)

print("File downloaded.")