Cleaning up dirty filenames

Context

When building automations using files, file names could become an issue if it contains reserved characters such as "/" or spaces, or special chars such as "é" or "+",...

Slugify

The standard python environnement provides a function that will transform a dirty name into a safe name.

First of all, go to the start task of your wokrlow and select the Helpers tab

In the imports files type this line below

from django.utils.text import slugify

file_base, file_ext = os.path.splitext(file_name)
file_base = slugify(file_base)
file_name = file_base + file_ext