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General URL for many files from 1 shared folder
Hello community,
In my dropbox I have a folder with 200 country flags which I would like to download automatically using the respective URLs.
My problem is that the URL of every single file contains a key which is unique.
Example:
- for the USA flag the URL is https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rzateuez21i5c95/us.png?dl=0
- for the Gereat Britain flag the URL is https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/2ct7i7ov5zf6r0z/gb.png?dl=0
Every URL consists of four parts: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com s/XXXXXXXXXXXXX/ FILENAME.FILEFORMAT ?dl=0
So every shared file gets its own key s/XXXXXXXXXXXXX/ which is unique.
Is is it somehow possible to create a URL without this unique key part s/XXXXXXXXXXXXX/ ?
Something like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/us.png?dl=0
Thank you
- Dropbox API v2 now supports listing the contents of a shared link for a folder. This can be accomplished using the same interface as listing a folder in a connected user's account, via the list_folder functionality. To list the contents of a shared link for a folder, you instead provide the shared link URL in the `shared_link` parameter to list_folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder
You can also get the shared link metadata and file data using:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_shared_link_metadata
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_shared_link_file
If you're using an official SDK, there will also be corresponding methods for these endpoints.
So, you could use a shared link for a folder and then programmatically list and access the contents.
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
duckladydinh No, unfortunately there currently isn't a way to download a whole sub-folder from a a shared link for a folder via the API, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
Note that you can download the top-level folder as a zip from the shared link as documented here, but that doesn't provide a mechanism for downloading a specific sub-folder.
- Greg-DB
Update: The Dropbox API now returns the shared link for the nested item as 'url' when requesting the metadata for that item using the "path" parameter on /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata (instead of the original parent link). You could use that to download a specific sub-folder.
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