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Best practice to convert Dropbox shared URL to direct download link in code?
The dl=1 parameter is meant for downloading a file in a browser, so if you want to programmatically retrieve the file data, you may want to use raw=1 instead of dl=1. I just tried it and raw=1 returned a 'content-type: image/png' (after the redirect), for example.
I have refer the doc, but in my case i want to extract the Content-type of a image from a link and i have tried in postman whenever i am changing hostname it is giving me that content-type properly, but keeping the hostname same and changing the query parameter to dl=1 it is giving application/binary
So what to do for getting correct content-type
const getMedia = (options) =>
new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
request.get(options, (err, response) => {
if (err) {
reject(err)
}
resolve(response)
})
})I am doing this to get the Media and then extracting its mime type, sometimes its working and sometimes not, but by changing hostname its working fine, so i want the concrete reason or a any other solution which will be feasible for future also
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
The dl=1 parameter is meant for downloading a file in a browser, so if you want to programmatically retrieve the file data, you may want to use raw=1 instead of dl=1. I just tried it and raw=1 returned a 'content-type: image/png' (after the redirect), for example.
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