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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...
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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