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user2153984

Reputation: 193

Write a google app script to store a PDF from URL in a specific folder in google drive

So here is what I want to do: I have a URL of a PDF document. I want to store it directly into my google drive without downloading it to my hard drive first and then uploading to google drive. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance!!!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2623

Answers (1)

Serge insas
Serge insas

Reputation: 46812

Using urlFetch and DocsList, this is pretty straightforward and takes only 3 lines of code :

var urlOfThePdf = 'http://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/tech_support/pdfs/280_owners_manual.pdf';// an example of online pdf file
var folderName = 'GAS';// an example of folder name

function saveInDriveFolder(){
  var folder = DocsList.getFolder(folderName);// get the folde
  var file = UrlFetchApp.fetch(urlOfThePdf); // get the file content as blob 
  folder.createFile(file);//create the file directly in the folder
}

Upvotes: 4

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