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Uh hi friends today in this tutorial I
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will be telling you that how to download
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a image from a URL and save it onto your
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Google drive using Google app script. So
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first of all you need to create a new
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brand new project here and it will
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redirect you to the this IDE where you
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will be writing your code. So first of
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all let me just zoom in so that you can
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see and now we will be declaring a URL
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variable. So basically this on this URL
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the image will be there. So let me just
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go to my personal website codingsure.com
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and on this website I have some im
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images that I can download.
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So let me just download my profile
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picture here which is there. If I right
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click here about me section here. So
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just wait.
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So if I right click copy image address.
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So this will give me the full URL. And
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now let me just paste this address here.
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And now we just need to download this
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image onto a Google drive. So for that
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first of all we just need to make a
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request here which will be URL fetch app
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and there is a fetch method. We need to
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pass the URL and then we just need to
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get the blob. So we will be calling this
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method get blob. So it will get the
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image and now we just need to store it
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inside your Google drive. So we will be
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using drive app
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and we will be invoking a method which
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will be
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uh let me just see the method which is
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create file. In order to create a file
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we will be using this method create file
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and we will pass our response object.
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That's it. And now if I run this
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function you will see that onto my
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Google drive it will create this
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photograph. First of all I need to save
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this. So let me just give download blob.
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Click on okay. And uh now I need to
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grant permissions also. So for the very
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first time if you run this project you
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need to grant permissions. So click on
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this button and then we will be signing
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in into my account. So after this click
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on advanc option. Click this and also
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you need to grant these permissions.
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Click on allow. And now it will run this
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function. It will fetch this photograph
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and it will create this photograph
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inside my Google drive. So just wait. It
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will create it. And now you will see
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that guys you see this photograph
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appearing here profile. JPG. This is the
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file. And now if I just refresh it my
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drive, it will be coming inside.
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You will see that you uploaded today
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here. So if I open this
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image
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you can see that the same image is
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there. I have downloaded this image
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automatically inside my Google drive
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using Google appcript.
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So basically this is the three lines of
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code which is necessary. Let me explain
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you once again. We had declared a URL on
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this URL. This image is there. Now if I
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just copy this URL and show to you. If I
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copy this and open this you will find
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this. If you open this URL, this is the
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image that we are downloading. First of
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all, we have declared this inside the
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URL variable. Now, we have made a very
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simple fetch request on to using Google
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Appcript which is URL fetch app. It
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contains a method fetch and we have
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passed the URL and then we have getting
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the blob object. So, blob here generally
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means the picture and after getting the
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picture, we just need to create a simple
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file onto a Google Drive. So the method
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is responsible which is create file. And
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here we are just pass the blob object.
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So basically it will create this file. I
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can take another example. Let's suppose
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I need to download a some other image.
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Let's suppose I take this image. Copy
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the image address. If I open this image,
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you will see that if I open this now,
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this image will open. This is the image
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I need to download. And once again I can
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just
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copy this address and once again run
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this. Now it will not ask for the
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permissions. It will run this
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automatically.
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So now you will see that this is a
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picture being uploaded. You can see that
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if I refresh it, it will be coming after
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the profile or jpg. So you can see that.
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So in this easy way you can um download
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any sort of image file from the internet
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to your Google drive using Google
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appcript. So thanks very much for
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watching this video.