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Pickle_People
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7 years ago

Getting direct download link to each file inshared link contents

Hello all, We are using Dropbox Javascript SDK to access a shared folder link in our AngularJS application. However after we get the contents of the shared folder using dbx.filesListFolder we get t...
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TaylorKrusen
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7 years ago

You're on the right track. 

Once you have the file's id, you can pass that to the filesGetTemporaryLink() method in the JavaScript SDK. You'll need to generate a new download link for each file individually. 

 

 

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