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File metadata through share link
Hi,
I'm Filipe and I've been using Dropbox android SDK for some years now. Currently i'm developing an application that receives a share link from Dropbox's native android application.
Is there any way for me to get that file (or folder) metadata (path and size) from the share link alone? Currently I'm querying all my files and folders for items with the same name, but that is not efficient and it wont work for duplicate items.
Is there any other (smart) way of doing this.
Cheers
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
(Apologies for the delay. For future reference, be sure to post anything about the Dropbox API in the "API Development" forum so we'll see it quickly.)
Unfortunately, no, there's currently no way to get metadata from the shared link itself, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request.
Is this still the situation? I get shared_link_not_found when I provide a collection URL to the /get_shared_link_metadata.
- Greg-DB
Hi Craig, this thread was about something slightly different (i.e., getting metadata for the link without using the API at all), but what you found is correct. The get_shared_link_metadata API endpoint doesn't currently support collection links. We'll consider this a feature request for support for that though.
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