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Konstantinos Giotis
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago
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Getting shared link for each file takes a lot of time

Hello everyone! Im building something associated with dropbox for my thesis. As I am fetching the files with the 'files/list_folder' endpoint, I wanted for each file, to check if it has a "shared li...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    If you call /2/sharing/list_shared_links without specifying the "path" parameter, it should return a list of all of the shared links for the connected account. You could then check the list of files against that entire list of shared links. That would likely be faster than calling /2/sharing/list_shared_links for each one. (Note that the /2/sharing/list_shared_links interface is paginated though, so be sure to check the returned 'has_more' value and call back again if needed. Check out the 'has_more' field documentation for more information.)

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