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Nicolas A.2
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9 years ago

dropbox chooser question

Hello Is it possible to use the chooser without the selection window ? I would go myself files parameters ex : list my dropbox's files -> chooser -> get link  i've already try with the PHP api'...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Each call to createTemporaryDirectLink will make another network request, to get the requested information from the Dropbox API, so unfortunately there will be a good amount of overhead for that. I'm afraid I don't have a good solution, but I'll be sure to pass this along as feedback. 

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