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How do I download all ArcGIS Online attachments from a hosted feature layer made from a Survey123 form?

KaitlynAbrahamson

Hello,

I have seen some work on this question on GeoNet before, but I absolutely can't get my attachments from a hosted feature layer downloaded. I have a Survey123 feature layer with a photo repeat that I have tried exporting to a file geodatabase without success. All I get is the standard 1KB file that will not unzip. I tried creating a replica without success as well; I keep getting error messages. I also tried using a notebook with script I've found on this site, but I am so new to Python, that I have not been able to get it to work. Please help!

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Katie_Clark

To confirm, you followed this workflow to try to download the fgdb? This is the only one that's always worked for me...

How To: Download attachments from a hosted feature service

JakeSkinner

Hi Kaitlyn Abrahamson‌,

You can use the Feature Class to Feature Class tool in ArcGIS Pro to do this.

KaitlynAbrahamson

This is what I followed, but I can never get a final link for download. I always run into errors like the one below.

"Error in creating runtime geodatabase."

KaitlynAbrahamson

I can retrieve attachments stored online through my Arc Pro? How so?

JakeSkinner

In ArcGIS Pro, connect to your ArcGIS Online organization
Execute the Feature Class to Feature Class tool, specifying the hosted feature service as the input. You can browse to the hosted feature service. By default, Maintain Attachments is enabled in the Environments:

KaitlynAbrahamson

Where do the attachments save? I have many photos attached to each entry.

KaitlynAbrahamson

I was able to create a replica, but I'm not sure where the photos are actually saved, let alone the sketches from our Survey123 crew in the field are. How do I access the actual photos and know which points they belong to?

Katie_Clark

So do you have the data within a file geodatabase? If so, there should be an attachments table that will contain the photo data.

KaitlynAbrahamson

These is an attachments table, but I want to see the actual photos and the exif data. How do I see those?

KaitlynAbrahamson

I'm realizing that when I export my attachments, I only get the first attachment and not the multiple attachments for each feature. Any ideas why this is happening and how I can export every attachment? Is it a setting I need to check or something?

ThijsBriggeman_Tensing

For all ending up in this thread due to googling:

You can use the tool 'export attachments' in ArcGIS Pro 3.4 on AGOL services.

plantbot

Attachments (photos) are not included in the attribute table when my AGOL map is exported as a .pitemx file for use in ArcGIS Pro. The column that contained those photos (or links to them) is removed from the attribute table when it is opened in ArcGIS Pro. I can download the photos one by one in AGOL, but can't bulk download them there or elsewhere. Is there a way to do that?

ScottDeNeicev1

There are a couple of ways.

1. First, this python script will extract the images to a to a folder of your choice. It is not very fast though.

#### Downloads GeoPlatform attachments from tables or feature classes

#### Created by: Adam Perteca and modified by Hong Sun, 09/21/2022

#### Update variables where comment has: ***

#### ArcGIS Pro

from arcgis.gis import GIS

import os

from arcgis.features import FeatureLayer

#provide AGO info/credentials for login ***

username = "UserAccount"

password = "UserAccount_Password"

gis = GIS(https://epa.maps.arcgis.com,username,password)

#specify the item id for the feature service ***

fs_id = "316ff6d006d04ce39ead7fe0b3a8c9cb"

#specify the layer id for the feature layer with the attachments you want ***

fl_id = 5

#specify the local folder where you want the attachments downloaded ***

local_path = r"C:\R8Projects\DiamondAsphaltTBA\ExportFiles\Survey123Images"

fs = gis.content.get(fs_id)

fl_url = fs['url'] + '/' + str(fl_id)

fl = FeatureLayer(fl_url)

feat_set = fl.query(where='0=0')

oidFieldName = feat_set.object_id_field_name

oids = [f.attributes[oidFieldName] for f in feat_set.features]

for oid in oids:

attachments = fl.attachments.get_list(oid=oid)

if len(attachments) > 0:

for attachment in attachments:

fl.attachments.download(save_path=local_path, oid=oid, attachment_id=attachment['id'])

print(f"{attachment['name']} downloaded") folder directly from GIS platform:

1. If you have a large number of images, this is the faster way.

You can also copy the feature and attachments to a file gdb in ArcGIS Pro using the Copy Features tool, making sure to check the Include Attachments and in Environments, checking the Preserver GlobalIDs.

Then you can use this script to extract the images from there:

import arcpy

from arcpy import da

import os

inTable = r"Path to file geodatabase\YanktonTBAMultisite.gdb\Photo_FC__ATTACH"

fileLocation = r"Path to folder where images are to be extracted"

arcpy.Exists(r"verify file geodatabase existance\YanktonTBAMultisite.gdb")

with da.SearchCursor(inTable, ['DATA', 'ATT_NAME', 'ATTACHMENTID', 'REL_GLOBALID', 'GLOBALID']) as cursor:

for item in cursor:

attachment = item[0]

filenum = str(item[1])

filename = filenum

open(fileLocation + os.sep + filename, 'wb').write(attachment.tobytes())

del item

del filename

del attachment

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