Keeping life simple

Download all attachments from Trello card as a zip file

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Ben Dellar

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**Unfortunately Trello changed their service in a way this no longer functions – I hope it was helpful to people over all this time**

Trello is amazing tool for co-ordination, planning and collaboration with the ability to assign cards, create due dates and checklists and also attach files. I have often found myself wanting to download all of the files associated with a card but have not found an easy way to do this without manually clicking and downloading on each one.

To simplify this I’ve created an online attachment downloading tool that you can export your card information to and it will create a single zip file of all attachments on the card:

Comments

44 responses to “Download all attachments from Trello card as a zip file”

  1. AH Avatar
    AH

    This is truly amazing and works splendidly! Very easy to use as well, which is helpful for less tech-savvy people.

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  2. Apurv Avatar
    Apurv

    This is a really great tool. Simple and direct. Really really appreciate it thanks! Please do drop me a line, as I would like to connect with you professionally.

    Reply
  3. Karissa Avatar
    Karissa

    Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
    I have a client that has uploaded a ton of files to the their Trello board and now I realized it was going to be a PITA to click each one. So I went Googling and was finding coding instructions that are way above my level.
    This made it sooo easy!
    Thank you again!

    Reply
  4. Jasmine H Avatar
    Jasmine H

    This is amazing!! I’ve just tried it and it works 🙂 thank you so much! You have saved me so much time and effort from downloading 282 attachments from one card!

    Reply
  5. Deb Medland Avatar
    Deb Medland

    Ben, you are my favourite!

    Reply
  6. Macario Avatar
    Macario

    This is an awesome tool. You wouldn’t happen to have open sourced this have you? Would love to use this as a basis for learning/creating own tools.

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    1. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      Hi Macario, I don’t have it set up quite right yet to properly open source but may do soon!

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      1. Lars Avatar
        Lars

        If you do not find the time, to set up open sourcing it… I would do it for you… 🙂

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  7. Jennifer Avatar
    Jennifer

    This is amazing. Thank you so much for creating this time saver. I hope Trello buys this from you to make it a standard feature.

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  8. zebaz Avatar
    zebaz

    The trello_attachment_dowloader you made is really nice. I can download all the images at once now. But i notice that the script skips all the text files. Can the script be improved so that it can download every attachement at once?

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    1. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      Hi Zebaz, could you post the extract of a card to test (make sure it doesn’t have sensitive attachments)

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    2. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      Hi Zebaz, Can you try running again and post the process identifier that appears at the top of the page so I can have a look for you.

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  9. Luke Avatar
    Luke

    Hey there,

    for me it just says “Downloading Now… 267 attachments detected”

    Seems to nothing happen after that.

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    1. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      Hi Luke, Can you try running again and post the process identifier so I can have a look for you.

      Reply
  10. Bilge Can Gürer Avatar
    Bilge Can Gürer

    Great tool but has some problems with encoding turkish characters.

    ” UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\u015f’ in position 16: ordinal not in range(128) Error Obtaining Zip File – Something went wrong!

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  11. Shane W - Melbourne Aus Avatar
    Shane W – Melbourne Aus

    Hi ben – love your tool. I have three boards and the JSON payload for two of them works fine but the third only detects 6 attachments when theres several hundred. Happy to send you the JSON via email to take a look if you like?

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    1. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      Hi Shane, sure thing will send you a note.

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  12. Tim Boddy Avatar
    Tim Boddy

    That, my friend, is a wonderful bit of work! Thank you very much indeed. Excellent tool.

    Reply
  13. Darlene Avatar
    Darlene

    This is genius. thank you so much!

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  14. Ahmed Mounir Avatar
    Ahmed Mounir

    Great! so helpful thanks

    Reply
  15. Craig Ulyate Avatar
    Craig Ulyate

    Thanks Ben! I just used this and it’s great! Saves me at least 10 minutes. I think you should approach trello to add this as a function..

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  16. Robbe Avatar
    Robbe

    You sir, are a lifesaver.

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  17. Tim Avatar
    Tim

    Don’t know and i don’t want to know what access to my cards you’ll now have but thank you nonetheless you just saved me some serious time!

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    1. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      No access except what is downloaded so that you can get hold of attachments and that’s all deleted within 24 hours.

      Reply
  18. MK Avatar
    MK

    Thanks Ben … much appreciated, awesome tool.

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  19. Valdas Avatar
    Valdas

    Thank you very much for this tool. You are great!

    Reply
  20. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    Thank you so much!

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  21. megatube Avatar
    megatube

    If you need extra security, we recommend using Google Drive for attachments. You can attach files from Google Drive directly to Trello and specify fine-grained access to the file via the Google Drive interface.

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  22. Juanca Avatar
    Juanca

    thanks, really nice to reduce the time to download 60 attachment 😛

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  23. Gus Avatar
    Gus

    Hello Ben.

    Your downloader is s great Trello tool! Use it really often. Very helpful!.

    Currently I have problems with the tool – is that problem local (for me) or is it a general issue?

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    1. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      Hi Gus, I haven’t had any other reports of issues but send me an email to [email protected] with details of your issue and I will take a look.

      Reply
  24. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Hi Ben, Thank you so much for this tool. It is really great. I am interested in having this built for myself in case yours ever goes down. I know nothing about programming.
    Can you tell me what I should be looking for or asking for in a programmer? You can send me an email if you like. Thanks

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    1. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      Hi Frank, for sure! Will send you an email.

      Reply
  25. Amy L Avatar
    Amy L

    This is literally the best thing in the world

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  26. Dorothea Avatar
    Dorothea

    Amazing tool! You saved my day!

    Reply
  27. Sue Avatar
    Sue

    Awesome Ben—you’re the best!

    Reply
  28. Thanh Nguyen Avatar
    Thanh Nguyen

    Your tool doesn’t recognise all the attachment files.
    My board has multiple cards, and each card contains a png file and an eps file, but your tool only recognises the png files.

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    1. Ben Dellar Avatar
      Ben Dellar

      Can you send me the ID at the top of the transfer to [email protected] and I’ll have a look

      Reply
  29. Tomaz Pessanha Avatar
    Tomaz Pessanha

    Hi Ben

    Thank you!
    It saved me a lot of work when I needed to backup everything I had in Trello before closing my account!

    Worked with no problems at all

    Reply
  30. CL Avatar
    CL

    Thankyou so much for one of the most useful tools on the internet. Devastated it’s no longer working… Let’s hope Atlassian get their act together and give us this capability. Will have to move to another platform without this now….

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  31. Juan Avatar
    Juan

    Sorry that Trello took steps to shut you down, your tool was amazing

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  32. patwork Avatar
    patwork

    Hello, I can see your script has stopped working so I wrote my simplified version in javascript that runs from the developer console. The code is available on github (trello-save-attachments).

    Reply
  33. EMDAD, Dhaka Avatar
    EMDAD, Dhaka

    this is really very useful.

    Reply
  34. Robert Fairchild Avatar
    Robert Fairchild

    I cannot explain why but this process never stopped working on our Trello. We were shocked when the website disappeared. But we understood the reason why. It there any way we could get access to the same process you had created. We would also be happy to make it pubilc use on a webpage again if that was agreeable.

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