Server Script - Save a text in a .txt file

Need help Database
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Hello,

Does anyone know how to save a file .txt in the database from a text content ?

This is for Coconut.co which needs an attached .config file.

save%20txt%20file

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Bubble has a server side node.js environment that you can access via custom plugin or the Toolbox plugin.

Then: https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/297/how-to-create-a-file-using-the-filesystem-fs-module-in-node-js

About saving it back to database, I still have not touched that part of Bubble yet. I’ll leave it for someone else to explain :slight_smile:

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Thanks @vini_brito

I create a demo on a public app :
https://bubble.io/page?type=page&name=1_create_txt_file&id=nocodepublic&tab=tabs-1

I tried different way. The NodeJS one seems the best, but I don’t know why I get an empty result.

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If this is a file that’s supposed to live in your site’s top level directory or similar, note that there is an area in Settings to do that.

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Which area in Settings do you mean ? I don’t understand.

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There’s a place to add files to your site. I’m on mobile and can’t recall exactly where that is. General perhaps?

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I see. But I don’t need to host the text file in a top directory of my app.
I want to create a file and save it within a Thing’s File in the ddb such as :
image

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Did you ever figure this out? I too would like to know how to programmatically create and save a file

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no I did ot.
What is your use case ?

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Need to programmatically create and host a text file. I figured out how to create a text file in the user’s browser using BrowserFS per @vini_brito’s tip however there is currently no way to return it back to bubble… unless perhaps if @mishav can tweak the toolbox plugin to return / upload text files.

I’ve noticed quite a few people in the forums have tried (and all failed) to do this.

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Hi @zelus_pudding, if you can convert that file to Base64, then you’ll get a step closer to saving it into Bubble database. That’s how files are transfered around.

Try searching the web for a way to encode it as base64, if you do, I can probably save it to Bubble for you via some plugin functions. I found out how to save things to Bubble and implemented that in a plugin of mine.

Search terms like “encoding a file from browserify filesystem X as base64”, note that the library offers several FileSystem backends.

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Oh, wow. I’ll try that. Thanks :slight_smile:

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I’m using Base64 conversion and it generated a gigantic string. The database even crashes when entering app data and an error message appears (must have a string size limit), at this point I only have one line of data to test.
Even so, I can send the Base64 string through the api. But I think if inserting new data the database should not support it.

On the page, to check if the Base64 was saved in the database takes almost 2 minutes.

I thought about saving the Base64 string in a txt file and later accessing that file and getting its content to send through the api.

Does anyone know how to do this?

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create API endpoint to https://yoururl.com/fileupload in API connector with body params

  • contents (base64 value)
  • name (filename)

Then in workflow

  • encode text to base64
  • result of this upload to bubble api endpoint

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