Downloading a file from Google Drive gives me Binary data

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Hi all, I’m trying to create an automation where I watch a folder in Google Drive for any new files. In my case, it’s going to be doc.
I want be able to read the content of the file and have OpenAI summarize it.
However, I try to pass the Web_View_link and OpenAI doesn’t accept it.
When I try to download it, the data is in binary format.
What I thought would be a simple automation has become frustrating.
How can I read the data from a file in my google drive and pass that to OpenAI?

Or is there a better way for me to get a file uploaded to my Google drive and have OpenAI summarize it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you in advance!

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Welcome to the Make community!

You’ll have to download as PDF to upload to OpenAI “Message an Assistant” module.

For more information, see How to PDF into openAI (Solution!)

Otherwise, you can also use CloudConvert to convert it to a TEXT file, so that you can paste the text contents of the file directly into the prompt.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.

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Thanks, samliew - I appreciate your response!