I am working on a small HTML file API application. This application can support users to drag, drop a file and read the file content. However, I found I either can make the drag, drop and read the file info part or using HTML upload feature to let users upload a file and read the file content.
Please see the example here: https://jsfiddle.net/tqcuor5g/
I just want the user can drop a file into a drop zone and the app can read its content and show in the text area.
My question is how can I make the application support drag, drop and read the file content at the same time? Thank you in advance!
Source code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-size:18pt;
}
#filedrop
{
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
color: Gray;
border: 10px dashed #9a9a9a;
}
</style>
<title>Reading a Text File</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function init() {
var bHaveFileAPI = (window.File && window.FileReader);
if (!bHaveFileAPI) {
alert("This browser doesn't support the File API");
return;
}
document.getElementById("filedrop").addEventListener("drop", onFilesDropped);
document.getElementById("filedrop").addEventListener("dragover", onDragOver);
document.getElementById("fileElem").addEventListener("change", onFileChanged);
}
function onFileChanged(theEvt) {
var thefile = theEvt.target.files[0];
console.log(thefile);
// check to see if it is text
if (thefile.type != "text/plain") {
document.getElementById('filecontents').innerHTML = "No text file chosen";
return;
}
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (evt) {
var resultText = evt.target.result;
document.getElementById('filecontents').innerHTML = resultText;
}
reader.readAsText(thefile);
}
function onDragOver(theEvt) {
theEvt.stopPropagation();
theEvt.preventDefault();
}
function onFilesDropped(theEvt) {
theEvt.stopPropagation();
theEvt.preventDefault();
var files = theEvt.target.files;
document.getElementById('filedata').innerHTML = "";
for (var i = 0; i <= files.length; i++) {
var fileInfo = "<p>File name: " + files[i].name + "; size: " + files[i].size + "; type: " + files[i].type + "</p>";
document.getElementById('filedata').innerHTML += fileInfo;
}
}
window.addEventListener("load", init);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using Drag and Drop</h1>
<p>Drop files here: </p>
<div id="filedrop"></div>
<p>File Information: </p>
<div id="filedata"></div>
<h1>Reading File Data as Text</h1>
<form action="">
<label>Select a file: </label>
<input type="file" name="files" id="fileElem" />
</form>
<p>File contents: </p>
<textarea cols="80" rows="10" id="filecontents"></textarea>
</body>
</html>
Related
I know there are existing codes to build a form that can upload multiple files (bulk import) such as this Uploading Multiple Files to Google Drive with Google App Script, but I was just wondering if it's possible to do one that asks for bulk import (or big sized file) multiple times? The existing scripts seem to pass the id of one input in the upload function using document.getFileByID(), and I can't pass multiple id's in it.
Here are the codes that I was referring to (copied from Uploading Multiple Files to Google Drive with Google App Script):
function doGet() {
return HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('form')
.setSandboxMode(HtmlService.SandboxMode.IFRAME);
}
function uploadFileToDrive(base64Data, fileName) {
try{
var splitBase = base64Data.split(','),
type = splitBase[0].split(';')[0].replace('data:','');
var byteCharacters = Utilities.base64Decode(splitBase[1]);
var ss = Utilities.newBlob(byteCharacters, type);
ss.setName(fileName);
var dropbox = "Something"; // Folder Name
var folder, folders = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(dropbox);
if (folders.hasNext()) {
folder = folders.next();
} else {
folder = DriveApp.createFolder(dropbox);
}
var file = folder.createFile(ss);
return file.getName();
}catch(e){
return 'Error: ' + e.toString();
}
}
<body>
<div id="formcontainer">
<label for="myForm">Facilities Project Database Attachment Uploader:</label>
<br><br>
<form id="myForm">
<label for="myForm">Project Details:</label>
<div>
<input type="text" name="zone" placeholder="Zone:">
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" name="building" placeholder="Building(s):">
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" name="propertyAddress" placeholder="Property Address:">
</div>
<div>
<label for="fileText">Project Description:</label>
<TEXTAREA name="projectDescription"
placeholder="Describe your attachment(s) here:"
style ="width:400px; height:200px;"
></TEXTAREA>
</div>
<br>
<label for="attachType">Choose Attachment Type:</label>
<br>
<select name="attachType">
<option value="Pictures Only">Picture(s)</option>
<option value="Proposals Only">Proposal(s)</option>
<option value="Pictures & Proposals">All</option>
</select>
<br>
<label for="myFile">Upload Attachment(s):</label>
<br>
<input type="file" name="filename" id="myFile" multiple>
<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="iteratorFileUpload()">
</form>
</div>
<div id="output"></div>
<div id="progressbar">
<div class="progress-label"></div>
</div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script>
var numUploads = {};
numUploads.done = 0;
numUploads.total = 0;
// Upload the files into a folder in drive
// This is set to send them all to one folder (specificed in the .gs file)
function iteratorFileUpload() {
var allFiles = document.getElementById('myFile').files;
if (allFiles.length == 0) {
alert('No file selected!');
} else {
//Show Progress Bar
numUploads.total = allFiles.length;
$('#progressbar').progressbar({
value : false
});//.append("<div class='caption'>37%</div>");
$(".progress-label").html('Preparing files for upload');
// Send each file at a time
for (var i = 0; i < allFiles.length; i++) {
console.log(i);
sendFileToDrive(allFiles[i]);
}
}
}
function sendFileToDrive(file) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (e) {
var content = reader.result;
console.log('Sending ' + file.name);
var currFolder = 'Something';
google.script.run.withSuccessHandler(updateProgressbar).uploadFileToDrive(content, file.name, currFolder);
}
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
}
function updateProgressbar( idUpdate ){
console.log('Received: ' + idUpdate);
numUploads.done++;
var porc = Math.ceil((numUploads.done / numUploads.total)*100);
$("#progressbar").progressbar({value: porc });
$(".progress-label").text(numUploads.done +'/'+ numUploads.total);
if( numUploads.done == numUploads.total ){
//uploadsFinished();
numUploads.done = 0;
};
}
</script>
<script>
function fileUploaded(status) {
document.getElementById('myForm').style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById('output').innerHTML = status;
}
</script>
<style>
body {
max-width: 400px;
padding: 20px;
margin: auto;
}
input {
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
select {
margin: 5px 0px 15px 0px;
}
input[type="submit"] {
width: auto !important;
display: block !important;
}
input[type="file"] {
padding: 5px 0px 15px 0px !important;
}
#progressbar{
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.progress-label {
float: left;
margin-top: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #fff;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
vertical-align: middle;
}
</style>
</body>
Thanks for any advice!
I believe your goal is as follows.
You want to upload only 2 files to your Google Drive using 2 input tags. Each file size is more than 50 MB.
You want to achieve this using Web Apps. The HTML is put in the Google Apps Script project including the script of Web Apps.
Issue and workaround:
In this current stage, when the file size is more than 50 MB, the file content cannot be directly saved as a file using Google Apps Script, because of the current specification at Google side. SO, in this case, it is required to upload the file using the resumable upload with Drive API. Ref In this case, it is required to prepare a script for achieving the resumable upload. But, fortunately, I have already created for achieving this using Javascript library. In this answer, I would like to propose a sample script using this Javascript library.
Usage:
1. Create Google Apps Script for Web Apps.
In order to use Web Apps, please create a new Google Apps Script project.
2. Sample script.
Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor of the created Google Apps Script project.
Google Apps Script side: Code.gs
function main() {
var html = HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile("index");
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showSidebar(html);
}
function getAuth() {
// DriveApp.createFile() // This is used for adding the scope of "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive".
return ScriptApp.getOAuthToken();
}
HTML & Javascript side: index.html
<input type="file" id="file1" />
<input type="file" id="file2" />
<input type="button" onclick="run()" value="Upload" />
<div id="progress"></div>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tanaikech/ResumableUploadForGoogleDrive_js#master/resumableupload_js.min.js"></script>
<script>
function run() {
google.script.run.withSuccessHandler(accessToken => ResumableUploadForGoogleDrive(accessToken)).getAuth();
}
function ResumableUploadForGoogleDrive(accessToken) {
const f1 = document.getElementById("file1").files[0];
const f2 = document.getElementById("file2").files[0];
[f1, f2].forEach((file, i) => {
if (!file) return;
let fr = new FileReader();
fr.fileName = file.name;
fr.fileSize = file.size;
fr.fileType = file.type;
fr.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
fr.onload = e => {
var id = "p" + ++i;
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.id = id;
document.getElementById("progress").appendChild(div);
document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = "Initializing.";
const f = e.target;
const resource = { fileName: f.fileName, fileSize: f.fileSize, fileType: f.fileType, fileBuffer: f.result, accessToken: accessToken };
const ru = new ResumableUploadToGoogleDrive();
ru.Do(resource, function (res, err) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
return;
}
console.log(res);
let msg = "";
if (res.status == "Uploading") {
msg = Math.round((res.progressNumber.current / res.progressNumber.end) * 100) + "% (" + f.fileName + ")";
} else {
msg = res.status + " (" + f.fileName + ")";
}
// if (res.status == "Done") google.script.run.putFileInf(res.result);
document.getElementById(id).innerText = msg;
});
};
});
}
</script>
When you want to put the uploaded files to the specific folder, please modify const resource = { fileName: f.fileName, fileSize: f.fileSize, fileType: f.fileType, fileBuffer: f.result, accessToken: accessToken }; as follows.
const resource = { fileName: f.fileName, fileSize: f.fileSize, fileType: f.fileType, fileBuffer: f.result, accessToken: accessToken, folderId: "###folderId###" };
3. Enable Drive API.
Please enable Drive API at Advanced Google services.
4. Deploy Web Apps.
The detailed information can be seen at the official document.
On the script editor, at the top right of the script editor, please click "click Deploy" -> "New deployment".
Please click "Select type" -> "Web App".
Please input the information about the Web App in the fields under "Deployment configuration".
Please select "Me" for "Execute as".
This is the importance of this workaround.
Please select "Anyone" for "Who has access".
For testing this script, I thought that this setting might be suitable.
Please click "Deploy" button.
Copy the URL of the Web App. It's like https://script.google.com/macros/s/###/exec.
When you modified the Google Apps Script, please modify the deployment as a new version. By this, the modified script is reflected in Web Apps. Please be careful this.
You can see the detail of this in the report of "Redeploying Web Apps without Changing URL of Web Apps for new IDE".
5. Testing:
As a simple sample script, when the above HTML and Javascript are run on a sidebar, the following result is obtained. Of course, this result can be obtained using Web Apps. When this script is tested, you can see that the files can be uploaded with the asynchronous process. This demonstration is from here.
Note:
In this case, the access token is retrieved from Google Apps Script side using ScriptApp.getOAuthToken(). For testing this script, you can use the scope of https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive. But, if you want to keep the security when you use this script in your actual situation, I would like to propose to use https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file as the scope. By this, the access token can access only the files created by this client.
When you modified the Google Apps Script, please modify the deployment as a new version. By this, the modified script is reflected in Web Apps. Please be careful this.
You can see the detail of this in the report of "Redeploying Web Apps without Changing URL of Web Apps for new IDE".
References:
Web Apps
Taking advantage of Web Apps with Google Apps Script
Resumable Upload of Multiple Files with Asynchronous Process for Google Drive
If I have an input:
<input type="file" id="upload" onchange="getFile(this)">
And my user will upload a JSON file (as plaintext, so I will have to use JSON.parse()), how can I take this file and actually get the data via getFile()
In getFile(element), I've tried using element.files[0] but that doesn't seem to contain the actual data. I've also looked here, here, and here, but none of these solve my problem. This resource on MDN seems promising, but I don't really get it.
I would like a solution involving either URL.createObjectURL() or FileReader().
Also, before anyone posts this in the comments, I do understand that these solutions do not work on all browsers, and I would like to do this from the frontend.
You could take advantage of the Response constructor and call .json() on any blob/file.
function getFile (elm) {
new Response(elm.files[0]).json().then(json => {
console.log(json)
}, err => {
// not json
})
}
Alternative method using the new read methods on blob.prototype[...]
new Blob(['1']).text().then(JSON.parse).then(console.log)
I guess for larger files response.json might be faster/better since it can parse the content in background and not block the main UI unlike JSON.parse
I think you need this api:
FileReader Api From MDN
JSON#parse()
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Read Text</title>
<style>
div {
margin-top: 30px;
border: solid 1px black;
padding: 5px;
}
</style>
<script>
function processFiles(files) {
var file = files[0];
var message = document.getElementById("message");
message.innerHTML = "File Name：" + file.name + "<br>";
message.innerHTML += "File Size：" + file.size + "<br>";
message.innerHTML += "File Type：" + file.type + "<br>";
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (e) {
var output = document.getElementById("fileOutput");
// parse string to json
output.textContent = JSON.parse(e.target.result);
};
reader.readAsText(file);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input id="fileInput" type="file" size="50" onchange="processFiles(this.files)">
<div id="message"></div>
<div id="fileOutput"></div>
</body>
</html>
I am trying to have a user click on a "load file" button to choose a file for the webpage. But I can't seem to get the actual file, just the name and when it was last modified. I need to run some JS code on that file, so I just need the actual text. I don't need to put it in the web page, but I just thought that would be a good way to display it. Here's my HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body onclick="update_loc(event)"">
<center><canvas width="400" height="400" id="myCanvas" style="border: 1px solid; border-color: #000000"></canvas></center>
<script src="./js.js"></script>
<input type="file" id="myFile">
<p id="output">YO</p>
</body>
</html>
And my JS:
var reader;
var file;
setTimeout(test_file, 500);
function test_file() {
setTimeout(test_file, 500);
file = document.getElementById("myFile").files[0];
console.log(document.getElementById("myFile").files);
reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (e) {
var textArea = document.getElementById("output");
textArea.value = e.target.result;
};
reader.readAsText(file);
}
I could not figure out how to copy and paste the chrome log, but I just got the file name and time in a "FileList" object.
Try this:
<input type="file" id="files" name="files[]" multiple />
<output id="list"></output>
<script>
function handleFileSelect(evt) {
var files = evt.target.files; // FileList object
// files is a FileList of File objects. List some properties.
var output = [];
for (var i = 0, f; f = files[i]; i++) {
output.push('<li><strong>', escape(f.name), '</strong> (', f.type || 'n/a', ') - ',
f.size, ' bytes, last modified: ',
f.lastModifiedDate ? f.lastModifiedDate.toLocaleDateString() : 'n/a',
'</li>');
}
document.getElementById('list').innerHTML = '<ul>' + output.join('') + '</ul>';
}
document.getElementById('files').addEventListener('change', handleFileSelect, false);
</script>
For more info about how to read and manipulate those files (in this examples is for multiple files) check this url
This question already has answers here:
How to extract text from a PDF in JavaScript
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Closed 8 years ago.
I am trying to extract the text from a document and pdf files and put them in a text area.
My code is at follows:
<html>
<head>
<title>FileReader Example</title>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.2/jquery.mobile-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
function upload(){
document.getElementById("image_src").click();
}
$("document").ready(function () {
$("#image_src").change(function () {
readBlob();
});
});
function readBlob() {
var files = document.getElementById('image_src').files;
if (!files.length) {
alert('Please select a file!');
return;
}
var file = files[0];
var start = 0;
var stop = file.size - 1;
var reader = new FileReader();
// If we use onloadend, we need to check the readyState.
reader.onloadend = function (evt) {
console.log(evt.target.result);
console.log(evt.target.data);
if (evt.target.readyState == FileReader.DONE) { // DONE == 2
document.getElementById('byte_content').textContent = evt.target.result;
}
};
var blob = file.slice(start, stop + 1);
reader.readAsBinaryString(blob);
}
</script>
<style>
#image_src {
position:absolute;
left:-9999px;
}
#img {
cursor:pointer;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<img id="img" src="images/ChooseFile.png" onclick="upload()" alt="hellp"/>
<input type="file" name="image_src" id="image_src" />
<pre id="fileDisplayArea"><pre>
<div id="byte_content"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The only problem I am having is that text is being displayed as rubbish but if I upload a text file it works. What's going wrong?
PDF is a binary format , it may contain interactive elements such as annotations, form fields, video and Flash animation.
If you need to work with PDF documents i suggest looking into PDF.js project .
I have located some API Doc's that might help you getting started :
PDFJS.getDocument
getPage
getTextContent
I am trying to automatically create an option menu (using HTML and JavaScript) based on the contents of a text file. What I would like is for each option in the menu to be a line in the text document.
Here is the JavaScript:
function get_parameters() {
alert("get_parameters() called"); // these alerts are just to tell me if that section of the code runs
var freader = new FileReader();
var text = "start";
freader.onload = function(e) {
text = freader.result;
alert('file has been read');
}
freader.onerror = function(e) {
alert('freader encountered an error')
}
freader.readAsText('./test.txt', "ISO-8859-1");
var div = document.getElementById('bottom_pane_options');
div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML + text;
}
With this code, all I'm trying to accomplish is reading the file and printing to the div "bottom_pane_options" but I can't find any reason why it doesn't work. If my way isn't the most efficient, could you please give me code that would work?
Thanks.
--EDIT--
Here is the HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Culminating</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script
src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyCJnj2nWoM86eU8Bq2G4lSNz3udIkZT4YY&sensor=false">
</script>
<script>
// Calling the Google Maps API
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<div id="googleMap"></div>
<div id="right_pane_results">hi</div>
<div id="bottom_pane_options">
<button onclick="get_parameters()">Try It</button>
</div>
</div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./javascript.js"></script>
</html>
You need to set the <div> text in the callback instead of right after you start loading:
freader.onload = function(e) {
text = freader.result;
/*************
** TO HERE **
************/
alert('file has been read');
}
/* MOVE THIS */
var div = document.getElementById('bottom_pane_options');
div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML + text;
/*************/
Because the file was not read yet when you are runing div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML + text;.
That's why there are callbacks.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileReader :
The FileReader object lets web applications asynchronously read the
contents of files [...]
Use this instead :
freader.onload = function(e) {
text = freader.result;
var div = document.getElementById('bottom_pane_options');
div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML + text;
alert('file has been read');
}
freader.onerror = function(e) {
alert('freader encountered an error')
}
freader.readAsText('./test.txt', "ISO-8859-1");