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Victor V.3
Explorer | Level 3
10 years ago

Api v1 - can I create Permanent Direct Url ?

Hi Dropbox community,  In my application, I am caching a list of internal objects which represent a list of excel files in dropbox. For each internal object I am generating a temporary direct url u...
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Victor V.3's avatar
Victor V.3
Explorer | Level 3
10 years ago

Hi Gregory, 

Thanks a lot for your answer and sorry for replying late.

A common use case for my internal app would be to generate a new file and upload it to dropbox via the api v1. For the end users of my app, this file would be represented as a report, which they would possible want to download through our own UI. The download url would have been set at creation time, when uploading the file, whereas the download could occur a week later for example, or never :) . However, this is not a problem. Now that I know about the 4 hour limit, I can generate the download url on demand, when the user needs to download the file. 

Thanks for your help, 

-victor

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