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Access free folders and files with Dropbox.Api 4.9.4 in .Net
Hi!
I have been provided with a Dropbox URL (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/<code1>/<code2>) where I can access folders and download zip files in my web browser without providing any credentials.
How...
Thanks for the fast answer!
I guess I have to convince my information provider to lock the information and require credentials. Feels a little bit odd.
Or can you recommend any other solution of this problem?
Dropbox.Api 4.9.4 seems to be the Dropbox API that is most alive (on https://www.nuget.org/) but it is not a requirment for me. But .Net is a requirment.
Or can you implement an anonymous access token, fast? ;-)
Best regards
Sorliden
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffUsing the API as I described above would offer you the most control over the integration, but one other solution would be to download from the link directly, without using the API. There's information here on how you can modify these shared links for direct access. You can then programmatically download from the modified link, using an HTTPS GET request, following redirects, with the HTTPS client of your choise. For shared links for folders, that would result in a zip download of the entire folder. You could then unzip that locally and use the contents as desired.
I'll also pass this along as a feature request for an anonymous way to do this on the API, but I can't promise if/when that would be implemented.
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