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How to Download Files From Internet to Google Drive Using Google Apps Script Example
Dec 21, 2025
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Uh hello friends, today in this tutorial
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I will be telling you that how to
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download any sort of file from the
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internet to your Google drive using
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Google app script. So basically this is
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a very general task that every person do
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that they download images from internet
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to Google drive. So I will be automating
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this process using Google app script. So
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first of all you need to go to this link
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which is script.google.com.
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So you need to create a new project for
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that. So just click on new project and
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then you will be redirected to the
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script editor. So here you will be
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writing the code for doing that. So I
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will be making a new function here. So
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let me just zoom in so that you can see
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function download file.
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So inside this function we will be
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writing the logic in order to download
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the file from the internet and save it
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to your Google drive. And I have made a
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folder here called as the images. So
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just make a empty folder from here. Just
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click on new and create a folder.
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And now first of all inside this uh
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function we just need to declare some
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variables. First will be the file name
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which will be empty for now. So just
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declare it empty. And the second
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variable will be file size. So it will
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be holding the size of the file which we
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will be downloading. So these are two
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variables and now we will be making a
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simple HTTP request to the internet for
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fetching the resource. So this will be
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URL fetch class. URL fetch app class and
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there inside there is a method which is
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dot fetch. So inside this you need to
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provide the URL.
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So in my case I will be downloading this
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image here profile. JPG. So in your case
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it it may be different. So just uh copy
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paste the URL and right here
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inside double quotes paste the URL. So
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this is the URL of the photo. And now it
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will return the response and it will
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store it inside this result variable.
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And now we just need to uh also check
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for the response code. So we can just
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get it by response dot get response
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code. So it it returns a response code
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depending upon whether the request is
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successful or not.
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So if it is equal to 200 then we know
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that uh it is successful. So we will be
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writing if condition here for checking
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it. So if the response code is equal to
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200.
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So in that case we will process it. So
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the very first thing that we need to do
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here is that we just need to create a
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blob object here. So file blob
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and we can just convert it by response
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dot get blob. So you just need to write
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here get blob.
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So response dot getblo. So just wait
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here
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get blob.
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So this uh function will be creating
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this blob object and after creating this
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we will be having to create another
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variable which will hold the folder ID.
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So here first of all we will be writing
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here drive app
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dot get folder by id. So we will be
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selecting this method. So we will be
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selecting the folder uh of its ID. We
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will be providing the folder ID here. In
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order to get the folder ID is very easy.
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Right click it and get the sharable link
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and it is copy paste it. So here you
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will see that after the ID is equal to
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this is the folder ID. So just copy this
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ID and paste it here.
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And this will return the folder for us.
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And uh now in the if condition we will
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check that if it is not equal to null.
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So here we will just check if folder is
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not equal to null.
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So in that case it it just means that we
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have got the folder and now we just need
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to save this file onto our Google drive.
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In order to save the file first of all
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we will create it by
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folder dot create file. So we will use
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the create file method.
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So and we will pass the blob object that
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we have created which is stored inside
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file blob. So after creating the file in
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the Google drive we will get the file
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name and store it inside the variable
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that we have constructed file name. So
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file dot get name. So basically it will
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get the name of the file which has
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created and in order to get the size
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file size it is very simple file dot get
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size.
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So after getting the name and the size
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we can just uh create a object and log
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into the screen. So just after this if
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condition we can just create a new
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object of file info and this will
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contain three values. First will be the
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response code RC colon.
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So this needs to be surrounded in single
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quotes. So just write here single
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quotes.
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RC and the second property will be the
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actual file name. So here we I I will
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write here file name. So this will be
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file name
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and the third property will be the file
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size. So here we will write the file
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size
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colon the file size which it holds. And
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now lastly we just need to print it on
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the console. And now we will be using a
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logger class which is available
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logger.log.
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This is a method which is available. And
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we will pass here file info. That's it.
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So this is a code necessary for saving
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the file to the Google drive. And now in
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order to run this we will click the run
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button.
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It is saying that first of all save the
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project. Let me just name as download.
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Click on okay. And then it will say that
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select the function. So let me just
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first of all save the file here.
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Save. Saving the file code
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and click on run button. So you will you
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have to provide the permissions first of
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all if you run the project. So I will
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provide the permissions. So sign in with
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my account here. So click on advanced
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and uh go to download. So just do this
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stuff and allow the permissions. You can
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see that allow it
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after you can see that running this
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function download file. So it is saying
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that response is not defined on line 8.
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Oh sorry we have called it as result. So
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that is the error here. So just change
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this to result. Now it will be okay
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again. Run this.
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So again I have named this as response.
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So I think that what can I do here is
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that I can just change this result to
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response one change here. Click on the
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run button again
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and hopefully it will download the file
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from the internet. You can see that the
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process is complete. Let me just check
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here. You will see that this images
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folder has got a image here profile.
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JPG. And now if I check my log here by
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going to view logs you will see that the
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response code was 200 file name was
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profile.jpg and the file size was this
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much these much of bytes. So in this way
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guys you can just download any sort of
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image from the internet. Let me download
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one other image for just reference here.
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Let me go to my website coding
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and take one other image for example.
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And let me just download this image.
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Let me just right click, copy image
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address. And now I will change this to
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this is I just need to make this change
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here.
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And uh I will be running this function
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once again. And now you will see that
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the second image will be downloaded and
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populated inside this folder. So just
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wait it is downloading.
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So you will see that guys this photo has
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been downloaded. You can see that jpg
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and again if I check the logs folder by
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going to logs here you will see that
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this time the response code is 200 and
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file name has changed and the file size
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is greater than. You can see that. So in
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this way guys very easily you can just
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download any sort of image file from the
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internet and save it automatically to
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your Google drive without having to
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interact with any kind of API. You just
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need to write this code that I have
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shown to you in this video. So thanks
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very much for watching this video. If
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seeing you in the next video. Until
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then, thank you very