DBFS Download

DBFS Download

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Download a file from DBFS (Legacy)

Streams a DBFS file to a temp file in Kestra internal storage; returns the storage URI. Note: Databricks considers DBFS legacy; for new flows, use io.kestra.plugin.databricks.unitycatalog.volume.Download instead.

yaml
type: io.kestra.plugin.databricks.dbfs.Download

Download a file from the Databricks File System.

yaml
id: databricks_dbfs_download
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: download_file
    type: io.kestra.plugin.databricks.dbfs.Download
    authentication:
      token: "{{ secret('DATABRICKS_TOKEN') }}"
    host: <your-host>
    from: /Share/myFile.txt
Properties

Source DBFS path

Absolute path to the DBFS file to download

Databricks account identifier

Assets this task consumes as inputs or produces as outputs, for lineage tracking and the asset graph (Enterprise Edition). A flow declaring this property on a task is rejected in the open-source edition.

Definitions
assetFailureBehaviorstring
Possible Values
IGNOREFAILWARN

Asset failure behavior

Behavior applied to the task state when a declared asset fails to render, emit, or be persisted (e.g. a lock conflict): FAIL escalates it to FAILED, WARN (default) warns it if it would otherwise succeed, IGNORE leaves the state untouched.

enableAutobooleanstring

Whether to auto-register assets referenced dynamically at runtime that are not statically declared in inputs or outputs.

inputsarray

The assets consumed as inputs.

id*string
Min length1
typestring
outputs

The assets produced as outputs.

id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*string
Min length1

Custom asset type

descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150

Databricks authentication configuration

This property allows to configure the authentication to Databricks, different properties should be set depending on the type of authentication and the cloud provider. All configuration options can also be set using the standard Databricks environment variables. Check the Databricks authentication guide for more information.

Definitions
authTypestring

Authentication type

azureClientIdstring

Azure client ID

azureClientSecretstring

Azure client secret

azureTenantIdstring

Azure tenant ID

clientIdstring

Client ID

clientSecretstring

Client secret

googleCredentialsstring

Google credentials JSON

googleServiceAccountstring

Google service account email

passwordstring

Password

tokenstring

Databricks personal access token

usernamestring

Username

Databricks configuration file, use this if you don't want to configure each Databricks account properties one by one

Databricks host

Formaturi

Downloaded file URI

Internal storage URI for the downloaded file

The file size