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Bob D.20
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9 years ago

API v2 Shared Link - unique identifier length

When obtaining a shared link via an API call, the unique ID that is returned as part of the shared link URL is 15 characters, based on my initial experimentation. Is that a fixed length? I am tryin...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Hi Bob, the length of the token in shared links isn't guaranteed, so I don't recommend relying on it. 

You might be slightly better off parsing the URL itself (e.g., using something like Python's urlparse) and grabbing the path component with the token. However, the link format itself also isn't guaranteed, so I can't make any promises on that either.

The API only guarantees that it will return JSON containing a string of the shared link URL, so the only safe thing to do is actually parse the JSON and take the URL string.

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