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Downloading a zip file using Api doesnt work
Hello Team ,
I have a "App folder" created and I try to list all the files inside the folder . From the response received , I grep for a particular zip file and download the zip file using "/2/...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThe /2/files/download_zip endpoint is only meant for downloading folders from Dropbox, not files. (Dropbox zips the folder into a zip file on the fly for that.) To download a file (whether the file is a .zip file or not), you would use the /2/files/download endpoint instead.
Also, it looks like your `path` value might be malformed regardless, at least based on the code you shared here, since you're building it as `"/$dropboxFolderPath/$latestFilename"`, and you're setting `dropboxFolderPath` as `dropboxFolderPath=""`, so `"/$dropboxFolderPath/$latestFilename"`, would contain an empty path component as the first path component.
In any case, you should also check the status code of the HTTPS response to see if the call succeeded or failed, and only save the data if the call succeeded. If it failed, you might just be saving the error message instead of the file data.
And for debugging issues, you can use the "-v" flag on curl to enable verbose output.
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