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ABDUL Salam's avatar
ABDUL Salam
Explorer | Level 3
1 year ago

Handling download_failed Errors in Dropbox API Jobs

I have a cron script that fetches PDF URLs and saves them to our Dropbox. Sometimes, I encounter a download_failed error for some files. When using the save_url endpoint, I receive an asyn_job_id, ...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
1 year ago
ABDUL Salam wrote:

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I s there a way I can see why it failed ?
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Hi ABDUL Salam,

Yes, probably there is. Just take a look on the code producing your error and see why it does that. If somebody else coded it, ask this person. In all cases, that's not Dropbox API error.

Good luck.

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