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Expiration settings of Temporary Link
Hi all,
is there a way to set the expiration duration for a Temporary Link in the API? The generated one expires within 4 hours by default. I’m thinking of setting it to 24 hours or so. I’ve se...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorNo, it's not possible to set arbitrary expirations on those temporary links, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
Note that you can modify the shared links from sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings for different behaviors if that helps:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/force-download
Note that you can modify the shared links from sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings for different behaviors if that helps:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/force-download
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"}}}
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