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Bitbucket
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3 years ago

Can I use the API to validate a previously manually generated link URL and find out file info?

Over the last several years a group of people have loaded files into Dropbox, manually copied a link to that file from Dropbox browser and stored the link in an external database.  Now we have over 7...
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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

Are you referring to Dropbox shared links like "https://www.dropbox.com/s/..." or ""https://www.dropbox.com/sh/..."? The Dropbox API does offer an endpoint for retrieving the metadata for shared links like this: /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata. You can see the information it returns under the "RETURNS" section. Note that some fields will only be returned if the access token used for the call is for the same account as the one that owns the supplied shared link.

 

Dropbox also offers an official Java SDK, with corresponding getSharedLinkMetadata and getSharedLinkMetadataBuilder.

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Bitbucket
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Thank you.  I won't be able to dig into it for a week or two, but will take a look at it.

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