Expiration settings of Temporary Link

Thanks for the reply and for forwarding it as a feature request. I can imagine that others can benefit from it as well :)

mark2mark,

Greg already linked to the docs on this, but just to be clear...you don't have to use the UI for sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings type of links.  If you get a shared link with that API and then replace "?dl=0" with "?raw=1" that links will function almost identically to the 4-hour temporary links.  That'll probably work for you? The one caveat is that to access the full file data you'll have to follow a redirect or two first.

(something I've noticed is that Dropbox never serves the bytes of files directly from the www.dropbox.com.  A file's bytes always come from different domain/subdomains)

(also it's pretty ugly that every shared link you get this way has "?dl=0" on it.  It seems like it's just telling the server that dl (download) equals 0 (false) which is also the default.  If you remove "?dl=0" the links still work fine but now you helpfully have the file/folder name at the end of the URL instead of that query args which is gobbleygook to the majority of people)

Thanks for the replies!

I am a bit confused by the documentation and my result.

import sys, json, datetime

nowPlusAddedHours = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(hours=24)
nowPlusAddedHours = str(nowPlusAddedHours.isoformat()[:19] + "Z")

if (3,0) <= sys.version_info < (4,0):
    import http.client as httplib
elif (2,6) <= sys.version_info < (3,0):
    import httplib

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer %s" % access_token,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

params = {
    "path": "/FOLDER/FILE.zip",
    "settings": {"requested_visibility":{".tag":"public"},"expires":nowPlusAddedHours}
}

c = httplib.HTTPSConnection("api.dropboxapi.com")
c.request("POST", "/2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings", json.dumps(params), headers)
r = c.getresponse()

print r.read()

I know that my access token is valid, but i get an error:

{"error_summary": "settings_error/not_authorized/...", "error": {".tag": "settings_error", "settings_error": {".tag": "not_authorized"}}}

mark2mark Are you using a free account? Note that only paid accounts have access to the link expiration feature. You can find more information under the error documentation for the endpoint:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link_with_settings 

Hi Greg-DB I did not see that. Thanks for pointing it out. I got a business account for my company related stuff, but I don’t want to rely on it. I guess I have to wait for the implementation of settings for the temporary link then. I’m aware of that it might not even happen.