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Anonymous
9 years ago
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Best way to get a file's URL

I am making an iOS app that displays all of the images from a selected folder. To make caching the images easier and more efficient I'm using the SDWebImage Library. SDWebImage requires a URL and I'm...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    9 years ago
    That is the right way to get a direct link to a file using the API.

    I'll be happy to pass along as feedback or feature requests though. What specifically would be more useful? Thanks in advance!
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Pash237
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8 years ago

I have exactly the same question, but I'm writing native iOS application in ObjC.

I searched, but can't find a way to get the temporary link for a file. I found mysterious `DBFILESGetTemporaryLink` and `DBFILESGetTemporaryLinkArg`, but I don't know how to use them.

 

I just need an external URL for a file in Dropbox — don't want to download it to a temporary location or data in memory.

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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

Pash237 In the Dropbox API v2 Objective-C SDK, you would use the DBFILESUserAuthRoutes -getTemporaryLink: method:

 

https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-obj-c/api-docs/latest/Classes/DBFILESUserAuthRoutes.html#/c:objc(cs)DBFILESUserAuthRoutes(im)getTemporaryLink:

 

That's an RPC-style method, so it would be used the same way as the createFolder example here:

 

https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-obj-c#rpc-style-request

 

(I.e., `[[client.filesRoutes getTemporaryLink...`)

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    Pash237
    New member | Level 2
    8 years ago

    Thanks, it works!

    [[client.filesRoutes getTemporaryLink:path]
       setResponseBlock:^(DBFILESGetTemporaryLinkResult *result, DBFILESGetTemporaryLinkError *routeError, DBRequestError *networkError) {
          if (result) {
             NSLog(@"Got URL for Dropbox file: %@", result.link);
          }
       }];

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