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Guy’s. I hope someone can help me with this. I am trying to do the following
- setup a slack trigger that triggers when someone uploads a file in a channel (works, no biggy)
- Then I try to get that file (usually a PDF) and get the text out of it. And here is the problem, I cannot access this file in pipedream, at least not the public one
I tried to get it from url_private_download but- this requires you to be logged in and even though I would expect that the authentication would be inherited from the trigger, it wasn’t.
also:
I tried to do it ‘manually’ using a code block and the token to fetch it, like so (code below) But this gives HTML (most likely the ‘not found’ page)
Can anyone help me with this? I have a deadline that low-code is perfect for and I really want this to work this way (because it’s awesome. 
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Thank you so much!
def handler(pd: "pipedream"):
url = pd.steps["get_file"]["$return_value"]["file"]["url_private_download"]
print(url)
token = 'xoxe.xoxp-1-Mi0yLTU2Nzg3MzE1NDY0MzktNTcwNTkzNDgzNTY4MS02MDQ5NzAxODY2MTk3LTYwNDU5ODE5MDc2MjItNGQ1NTkwZjAxYjg4Yjk1NjJlNzM3MGI3MjRjZTE4MGQ2MmY*************************'
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % token}
response = [requests.post](http://requests.post)(url=url, headers=headers, timeout=120)
print(response.content)