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nadeemphpdots
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Get thumbnails of files from shared folders

Hi there, I get list of files inside shared folder using "2/files/list_folder" with "shared_link" parameter and I am using response from "2/files/list_folder"  into  "2/files/get_thumbnail_v2"...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago

nadeemphpdots, In addition to what Greg said, you can use those calls also with Application Authentication. In other words, you don't need to be logged in since shared resource isn't something private (by assumption).

Greg-DB, I thought to post the example in App Authentication section, but there is a mistake. Can you use path in anonymous access, alone?! 😉 Maybe some documentation corrections are need.

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Yes, this works with app authentication as well. In that case it would look like:

curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_thumbnail_v2 \
  --header "Authorization: Basic <ENCODED_APP_KEY_AND_SECRET>" \
  --header 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"resource":{".tag":"link","path":"/test.jpg","url":"<SHARED_LINK>"}}' \
  -o out.jpg

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