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Björn S.1's avatar
Björn S.1
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10 years ago

Getting download URLs from shared folders

My client has a partnership with a photographer who dumps images in a dropbox folder that is shared. It can be accessed through /sh/... link. For dropbox to work in our solution I need to be able to ...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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10 years ago

[Edit to offer a simpler solution]

The /metadata/link endpoint allows the app to get additional metadata (path, size, etc.) as well as individual links to files within the folder the link points to. To do so, call /metadata/link with the shared link as the link parameter, as well as the desired sub-path as the path parameter. Then modify and use the returned link to download the contents directly:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/201

(You can use list=true first to get the listing of the folder first.)

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