Struggling to this simple thing - How to Get Files from Folder and use it on the Automation

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Hello Guys, thanks for reading this problem,

It happens that I failled many times in the same thing, and I could not solve the problem:

The automation itself: Take new files from a folder (using Google Drive with the ALLOWED Api on the Google Cloud Console) and Upload it to Youtube as a Private video

The problem:
1 - I could not retry the Mp4 archive and upload it to youtube. It never generates a valid link or archive.
2 - I want to learn how to manage Files from Folders using Make, because i Know how to generate things and etc, but i dont know hot to TAKE the File and use it

You can see a print screen above:

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Other Possibilities or questions you may have:

  • “Try Using another database (such as airtable)” -
    R: Yes, i watched Stephen G Pope Channel and he uses this data structure, too advanced for me to do it
  • Have you tried using other solutions?
    R: No.
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You need to also use the Google Drive “Download a file” module to actually download the file content, before you can upload it elsewhere.

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

— @samliew

P.S.: Did you know, the concepts of about 70% of questions asked on this forum are already covered in the Make Academy. Investing some effort into it will save you lots of time and frustration using Make later!

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Hello, thanks for your awnser.

But you did’t help.

Note that I’ve mencioned that i can’t Download the file, because it would overload my server database, wich is the free one.

I know that we can manipulate data using the Download function,

But that’s not Scalable,