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MaxEvan
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9 years ago

Download file through JS SDK

I am currently working with your javascript sdk to retrieve a list of files from my dropbox using filesListFolder and I display the files as links on my page. I also use the filesDownload method to g...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

I can't think of a way to do this using filesDownload. The filesDownload response block won't fire until the data is ready, so you can't build the URL from the blob until then, which you need to trigger the download.

 

You could use filesGetTemporaryLink instead though. That will directly return a URL you can pass along to the browser to download from. 

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    MaxEvan
    New member | Level 2
    9 years ago

    Thank you very much for the answer, I will try that!

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