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NemiroViktor
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6 years ago
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Downloading, Getting metadata and Revisions of shared to me file

Hello. How I can get a list of revisions (and other data) of the shared to me file (Only a file is shared, not folder). I uses the method client.Sharing.ListReceivedFilesAsync() for  getting the ...
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    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    You can use /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata and /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file to get the metadata and file content for a shared file, respectively, by passing "preview_url" as the "url" parameter.

    The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to list the revisions for a shared file like that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

You can use /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata and /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file to get the metadata and file content for a shared file, respectively, by passing "preview_url" as the "url" parameter.

The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to list the revisions for a shared file like that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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