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HARITJOSHI1
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4 years ago

Download files as blob using dropbox chooser

So I have integrated dropbox into my react app and my app successfully opens a dropbox dialog box, signs in users and list their files and folders. I am facing issues with the downloading of the sele...
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HARITJOSHI1
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
Ohh I actually tried to get around that but still got CORS error and I'm confused about direct and shared links they are not working in the way I want as you are saying it's a feature yet to implement then why url of the content is included as a response when a file is selected?

What should I do is there any workaround that you can suggest??
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

The "preview" links are typically meant for manual use, where CORS wouldn't be relevant.

 

Dropbox does also support those "dl" and "raw" parameters on preview/shared links, but that would only work in non-CORS environments, e.g., downloading a file on a server, not in a browser.

 

As for a workaround, you would need to perform this in a non-CORS environment like, such as using a local non-browser client, like curl, or on a server of your own. That would be more work though. Apologies I don't have a better solution to offer.

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