Hi, I have a piece of code that let’s a user select a file to upload, and then it carries on processing. Is there a way to revoke this, and I upload the file myself when the application begins, through some sort of initialization function? This is for a Streamlit page. When a webpage is refreshed…

Just decorate your initialization function, then it will only run when it is called for the first time. @st.cache_resource def initialization_function(): # do your stuff here return something

Hello @chai86 , Here’s how you might structure your app to automatically process files from a specific directory at startup: import streamlit as st import os def get_pdf_text(files): return "Processed text from PDF" def main(): files_directory = 'predefined_files' if 'initialized…

Is there a way to run an initialization function?

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chai86 January 31, 2024, 9:57am 3

Could you give an example of how i’d use this in my case please?

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Is there a way to run an initialization function?

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