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Getting multiple thumbnails of multiple files at once ?
Is it possible to retrieve multiple thumbnails of multiple files at once ? I tried to make a request to https://photos.dropbox.com/thumbnails_batch just like the guide from https://blogs.dropbox.com/...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThat's a way of calling the API endpoint and supplying the credentials on the URL itself (instead of in a header), but the API call still returns the thumbnail data directly.
API v2 does also offer a way to do this as well as documented here under "Content-download endpoints" (i.e., using the 'authorization' and 'arg' URL parameters).
It's important to note thought that while it does technically produce a single URL that returns a thumbnail that can be accessed just via a GET request, it should be used with caution, as it could leak the access token. For example, you shouldn't use this technique client-side if the thumbnails are being shown to anyone other than the owner of the files, as the links contain the access token.
Oh I see, thanks Greg for helping me to know more about the v2 API.
Phuong
Phuong
- Hi Greg,
One more question please. I tried a get request to this endpoint https://content.dropboxapi.com/1/thumbnails/auto/IMG_8199.jpg with authentication token in the header and it works great. My question is: Will this get endpoint continue to be supported after 6/28/2017 when the api v1 is turned off since the end point host is from v2 but it still contain 1/ in the url. Please advice.
Thanks, - Greg-DBThe /1/thumbnails endpoint is part of API v1 and will not be available after API v1 is retired. (The different hosts, e.g., api-content.dropbox.com and content.dropboxapi.com, are not tied to specific versions of the API. They each currently serve both API v1 and API v2.)
- Oh ok, thank you very much.
Phuong
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