[Question] Permission denied on mobile

[Vallekralle]

Question

I tried to write to a new file that doesn't exists yet (on mobile). With the code snippet:

video_req = requests.get(url=self.data[0]['urls'][1]["url"], allow_redirects=True)  # just gets the video with an api, it works fine

with open(f"/storage/emulated/0/Download/literallyme.mp4", "wb") as f:
    f.write(video_req.content)

When I try this on my pc it works perfectly fine, without any problem, but when I build the apk and install the app on my mobile phone, it shows the error msg: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/storage/emulated/0/Download/literallyme.mp4'. I think my problem is that I need the permission, like when you try to get a file or folder with the FilePicker-Class from flet. I automatically shows an AlertDialog with the permission inquiry.

I hope you can help me that would be great 👍

Thank you for reading my question/problem,
Stay safe and have fun programming

Code sample

video_req = requests.get(url=self.data[0]['urls'][1]["url"], allow_redirects=True)  # just gets the video with an api, it works fine

with open(f"/storage/emulated/0/Download/literallyme.mp4", "wb") as f:
    f.write(video_req.content)

Error message

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/storage/emulated/0/Download/literallyme.mp4'

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• I have searched for answers to my question both in the issues and in previous discussions.

[burhansvural]

Question

I tried to write to a new file that doesn't exists yet (on mobile). With the code snippet:

video_req = requests.get(url=self.data[0]['urls'][1]["url"], allow_redirects=True)  # just gets the video with an api, it works fine

with open(f"/storage/emulated/0/Download/literallyme.mp4", "wb") as f:
    f.write(video_req.content)

When I try this on my pc it works perfectly fine, without any problem, but when I build the apk and install the app on my mobile phone, it shows the error msg: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/storage/emulated/0/Download/literallyme.mp4'. I think my problem is that I need the permission, like when you try to get a file or folder with the FilePicker-Class from flet. I automatically shows an AlertDialog with the permission inquiry.

I hope you can help me that would be great 👍

Thank you for reading my question/problem, Stay safe and have fun programming

Code sample

video_req = requests.get(url=self.data[0]['urls'][1]["url"], allow_redirects=True)  # just gets the video with an api, it works fine

with open(f"/storage/emulated/0/Download/literallyme.mp4", "wb") as f:
    f.write(video_req.content)

Error message

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/storage/emulated/0/Download/literallyme.mp4'

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• I have searched for answers to my question both in the issues and in previous discussions.

https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/blob/develop/pythonforandroid/recipes/android/src/android/permissions.py

[Vallekralle]

Thank you for your reply 👍