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johnvu93
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3 years ago
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Adding files from a Dropbox link to my account.

This is a feature of Dropbox called "Copy to Dropbox". Please see this image  I am wondering if there is any API that allows me to do this?   Once the customer enters the URL link into the input, ...
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    Greg-DB
    3 years ago

    johnvu93 The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to copy a folder from a shared link into a connected Dropbox account via the API like the "Copy to Dropbox" feature of the shared link page, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if/when that might be implemented though. (The Dropbox API does offer /2/files/save_url which works with Dropbox shared links, but that only supports files, not folders.)

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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

johnvu93 The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to copy a folder from a shared link into a connected Dropbox account via the API like the "Copy to Dropbox" feature of the shared link page, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if/when that might be implemented though. (The Dropbox API does offer /2/files/save_url which works with Dropbox shared links, but that only supports files, not folders.)

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