We have been using Printavo to manage our screen print/embroidery shop. We have a couple of large customers for jobs completed within the last two weeks.
I would like to;
Identify jobs for Customer A that are complete
Find the URL to the actual invoice.pdf for that job
Download the file to a OneDrive folder
1 and 2 are not the issue; I’m damned if I can find the easy, straightforward way to accomplish 3. I have the URL, I have the OneDrive connected. I need the rough equivalent of
#!/bin/sh
pdfout = $(uuidgen).pdf curl -o $pdfout $1
where $1 points to the PDF I need.
thanks.
Best answer by christina.d
So glad to hear you were able to get this sorted, @spectrum!
I also wanted to summarize some of the recommendations here into one solution in case it’s easier for anyone following along!
OneDrive Upload File step configuration (granted it’s a static value), but if you map the correct variable for the PDF, it should work.
Screenshots from the uploaded file in OneDrive.
In this case, since the URL in question is a redirect another step was required:
Add a Zap step: Formatter > Text > Replace
Replace “https://www.” with “https://spectrumdesigns.”
Thanks again and welcome to the Community! 🎉
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Yes, that was my conclusion. Surely there is a way to do this, short of rolling the Printavo API into my own shell script (which I would prefer not to do)?
Aha. The Zapier field (Pdf) -- which should contain the download link to the actual file, and appears to in the editor -- is actually giving me the parent page. Verified this by pasting the expected URL instead of using the field value.
Huh. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. It worked when I pasted the URL. It does not work when I use the variable/PDF field.
I see now that the variable field is incorrect -- it says “www’ where it should say “spectrumdesigns”. The “www.printavo.com” page is nothing more than an HTML redirect to the parent page:
<html><body>You are being <a href="https://spectrumdesigns.printavo.com/invoice/9068822646332425a3555e8be338fbd4">redirected</a>.</body></html>
Looks like I’ll have to use Javascript or Python to get this done.
