topic Re: Download a file in a personal folder on Viya in SAS Programming

Download a file in a personal folder on Viya

MaT721 — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:52:25 GMT

Hello everyone,

In my personal folder, which you can see in the image below, I have images in PNG format that I would like to download automatically with code.

If I right click on one of the images and choose download I can see the link that is generated.

https://host:port/SASStudioV/sasexec/sessions/ce621d14-131743d0-908e-b223a6250a68/workspace/download?path=...&filename=....png

The part between sessions and workspace changes with each new connection.

How to do with proc http ?

Thanks.

Re: Download a file in a personal folder on Viya

miaeyg — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:34:53 GMT

Hi @MaT721 ,

I am not sure if what I am suggesting is the best way but I think it will work...you can use the SAS Viya REST API to create a compute server session and then submit SAS code which assigns a fileref that points to your image that you want to download and then download it using this API: https://developer.sas.com/apis/rest/v3.5/Compute/#download-a-file

Another option which I am not sure will work is to somehow use the Files API but I am not sure if it can be used to access files on disk or just files in the SAS Content Server.

HTH,

Eyal