Bulk download media from glide (airtable)

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Good afternoon,

I am creating a glide app which allows each person to upload a music file which is stored in an airtable. Is there a way to bulk down-load the music files, or does one have to download each file individually?

Thanks
Zita

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Might be able to run some sort of make scenario that

  1. sends a CSV list of music URLS via a webhook
  2. Iterates an HTTP module to convert those into files
  3. Add the files to a zip file
  4. Sends the zip file via email

This is all speculation.

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Thanks for that … but music files will be a couple of Gb, thus not quite mailable! I do like your point 1 & 2 though …

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It has to be a ZIP file in order to download it in one go, I guess. I assume you’re allowing a user to choose which files to download, so Robert’s suggestion is the cleanest way in my opinion.

There’s also a JS way (not straightforward for Glide, I imagine), to handle a click event and tell the browser to open multiple links in a row. That discussion is covered here.

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Hi @ThinhDinh, do you have any guidance on how to make this JS executable in Glide?

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Sorry, it seems like there’s no way to do it within Glide. JS in Glide, as far as I aware, is only used for transforming data on the backend, as a column.

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That’s what I deduced as well – thanks! Hoping one day there could be a download action (to supplement the documents + images picker).