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How to download via URL from DBFS in Azure Databricks

Documented here its mentioned that I am supposed to download a file from Data Bricks File System from a URL like:

https://<your-region>.azuredatabricks.net?o=######/files/my-stuff/my-file.txt

But when I try to download it from the URL with my own "o=" parameter similar to this:

https://westeurope.azuredatabricks.net/?o=1234567890123456/files/my-stuff/my-file.txt

it only gives the following error:

HTTP ERROR: 500
Problem accessing /. Reason:

java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: 
"1234567890123456/files/my-stuff/my-file.txt"

Am I using the wrong URL or is the documentation wrong? I already found a similar question that was answered, but that one does not seem to fit to the Azure Databricks documentation and might for AWS Databricks:

Databricks: Download a dbfs:/FileStore File to my Local Machine?

Thanks in advance for your help

Solution

  • The URL should be:

    https://westeurope.azuredatabricks.net/files/my-stuff/my-file.txt?o=1234567890123456

    Note that the file must be in the filestore folder.

    As a side note I've been working on something called DBFS explorer to help with things like this if you would like to give it a try? https://datathirst.net/projects/dbfs-explorer/