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Colm O.
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11 years ago

Can I access the Public Links automatically in FileMaker?

My clients are using the FileMaker database platform for their business's workflow, and they need to be able to store images in Dropbox, and view them in FileMaker/Preview/Adobe PDF Reader. FileMa...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

If you're using the Dropbox API, you can get a link to a file using /shares:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#shares

This returns the same kind of link as the feature on the web site:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/167

In either case, note that these links point to a preview page for the file by default, but you can modify these links for different behaviors, e.g., to return the file content directly, as shown here:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/201

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