[Tutor] Downloading Slack Files

[David Rock]

> On Aug 16, 2016, at 15:25, Malcolm Boone <oasis.boone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>    while 1:
>        files_list_url = 'https://slack.com/api/files.list'
>        date = str(calendar.timegm((datetime.now() + timedelta(-30))
>            .utctimetuple()))
>        data = {"token": _token, "ts_to": date}
>        response = requests.post(files_list_url, data = data)
>        if len(response.json()["files"]) == 0:
>            break
>        for f in response.json()["files"]:
>            print ("Downloading file" + f["name"] + "...")
>            timestamp = str(calendar.timegm(datetime.now().utctimetuple()))
>            urllib.urlretrieve = "https://" + _domain + ".
> slack.com/api/files.list" + timestamp
>            requests.post(urllib.urlretrieve, data = {
>                "token": _token,
>                "file": f["id"],
>                "set_active": "true",
>                "_attempts": "1"})
>    print ("DONE!")
> 
> 
> The other issue, is that the script never ends (probably a simple solution,
> but again I'm pretty new to this). It keeps printing the list of file names
> over and over until I manually close out of Python.

I’m not sure about the downloading part, but the reason it never stops is because this test is never true:

>        if len(response.json()["files"]) == 0:
>            break

Since you are downloading and not removing anything, there’s always going to be files so you will never break out of the while loop.

I think you need to get the list of files first, outside of the loop, then loop over that list to download.  


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David Rock
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