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studio69
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago

Get downloadable links from a folder

Hello,     I would like to use Dropbox so that people could host files into a folder. For now, they have to share manually each link and put this link in the csv file in order to import files int...
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studio69
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago

Actually, they uploaded files from their accounts in a shared folder.

They need individual links for each file so that import process could work. The URL needs to  start with http or https.

Ideally, I would like a link with the same prefix (the shared folder link) and the filename (i.e: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/AAbbCCEeFF123/myfilename.jpg) so that they don't need to manually generate a shared link for each file.

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Gonzo345
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago

The Shared Links have their own "format" so you need to get the metadatada, parse the name and then perform the download and apply that parsed name and file extension. At least that's how I do that using .NET on a fully "apished" (lol) application.

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