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HuS
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Export Dropbox-Content to WordPress with list_folder

Plus plan user here. We consider using the API method list_folder to pick up a large Dropbox folder (thousands of images 100-5000 kb each) to populate the Media Library for a WordPress site. Individu...
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Lockett677
New member | Level 2
4 hours ago

Yes — using the Dropbox API’s list_folder endpoint to enumerate a large folder and then feeding those file URLs into a bulk importer like WP All Import is a valid and achievable approach. The Dropbox API supports recursive listing and allows you to retrieve all image metadata via list_folder and list_folder/continue before you generate URLs for import. If existing plugins don’t meet your specific needs for automatically populating the WordPress Media Library with full-size images, building a custom integration around this API pattern is a reasonable solution many developers use for similar media ingestion tasks. 

 

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