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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/...
nive wrote:... It does download the zip file ...
Hi nive,
Wow...😯 Really? That would be really surprising. 🤔
nive wrote:... I grep for a particular zip file and download the zip file using "/2/files/download_zip" endpoint . ...
If you take a look on /2/files/download_zip's documentation:
Download a folder from the user's Dropbox, as a zip file. The folder must be less than 20 GB in size and any single file within must be less than 4 GB in size. The resulting zip must have fewer than 10,000 total file and folder entries, including the top level folder. The input cannot be a single file. ...
Why do you decided that you need to use exactly this API access point? Let's recall the zip file is a... file! It's NOT a folder. 🙂
By the way, when you say that particular thing is done ("It does download the zip file" in particular), better check what has been done actually and is there some error in meantime! Actually you don't check for error at all and that's where you confusion comes from. 😉 You got - "error_summary": "path/not_folder/.." for sure. Does this text look like a zip file content? 😁
Hope this clarifies matter and gives direction.
PS: By default curl doesn't report server side errors as a returned status. To make curl respond with corresponding status (that you can check) use -f flag.
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