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quocvu
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Best way to get a file's URL

There are photos in shared folder that I have access to.  I would like to get the URL of the photos (the JPEG/PNG) in that folder using the V2 NodeJS API.   I am able to enumerate the files in the ...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
There isn't a way to create a shared link for every file in a folder without making a call for each one unfortunately. You'll need to list the files and call sharingCreateSharedLinkWithSettings on each one.
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pigelectric
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Oh darn, I was thinking that might be the case. Is there a way to automate that ?

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