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LarisaMoroz
New member | Level 2
6 years ago
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Cannot obtain download links for files in public shared folder

Hello. I have a link to a shared folder with thousands of photos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/saudciiyp40kjr5/AACG9UCNAtsy0WMxuX82xGLma?dl=0 I can see and download any of them from browser witho...
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    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    I'm afraid that's correct; there unfortunately isn't a way to do exactly what you want to do here. While you can retrieve the metadata and file content for a particular file from a shared link for a folder like this using /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file as mentioned, the Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to retrieve the download link. I'll pass this along as a feature request, but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.