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wrench1815
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5 years ago

A way to shorten the url of the files when using dropbox with DJango

I've been trying to make a site, and am using Dropbox for image backend. But i have a problem, The url of the image that is uploaded to dropbox is too long like this image link is more than 400 chara...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

The kind of link in your screenshot is a temporary link returned by /2/files/get_temporary_link. There isn't an option to make those shorter, but an alternative would be to use /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings instead. That returns shorter shared links that don't expire by default. They do point to HTML preview pages by default, but you can modify them as shown here for different behaviors, such as direct file content access. Note that these shared links are subject to bandwidth limits.

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